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I think right off the bat since they chose .coop as their TLD, a lot of corporate firewalls auto-block them and they have immediately decided to fight an uphill
by shadowgovt 1y ago
I think right off the bat since they chose .coop as their TLD, a lot of corporate firewalls auto-block them and they have immediately decided to fight an uphill battle to get allow-listed to be a gem repo.
This does not bode well for the team having the socio-technical savviness to see this project through.
- w0m 1y agoseems like an easy fix in a month with a new TLD though.
- spit2wind 1y agoReally? Maybe I'm naive, but why would .coop be blocked?
- lbhdc 1y agoIt is pretty common that "weird" tlds get blocked more or less whole sale in places you might not expect. The reason is spam. Before these can get wide spread "normal" adoption they can be heavily used by spammers. Its hard to say if that is because they have desirable look-a-likes available, or if its because the first year is offered at a deep discount. So, systems will get flooded, and on inspection they will see that they don't have any legit traffic from those tlds and will whole sale block them. .xyz is kind of infamous for being in this situation. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28554400 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28554400 I have no idea if that applies to .coop though.
- chillfox 1y agoPretty sure it is because they are cheep for the first year. And the blocks are often for domains younger than one year, instead of whole tld.
- krainboltgreene 1y agocoop has around 12 years of age on xyz at least.
- wlonkly 1y ago.xyz is open registration and is known to be a spam/abuse source. .coop is restricted to legally-formed cooperatives. Apples and oranges.
- veeti 1y agoI wonder if you can count on some crappy enterprise firewall to make that distinction.
- joeldrapper 1y agoHow does `.coop` get used for spam when you need to prove you’re an actual cooperative to get one?
- hombre_fatal 1y agoHow will anything ever change we're still guilted into thinking about crappy default corporate firewalls when choosing a TLD? Though there's no way that this is something you care about, cmon.
- shadowgovt 1y agoMost places seem to manage. But thinking that they can disregard all prior Internet history and just slam into the situation with no concern about what came before is pretty on-brand for a project in the Ruby ecosystem.
- florkbork 1y agoAh yes, "slam in" to a situation is definitely the correct terminology for forking a project that was seized from you by a hostile party.
- shadowgovt 1y agoI mean regarding the choice of TLD. Forking the package repository ecosystem I fully understand the incentives; it just strikes me as a very Ruby-ecosystem thing to just assume that `.coop` is a good enough TLD with no consequences for using it relative to choosing to use .org, .com, or .net.
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- chillfox 1y agoDon't think it will be the TLD specifically. Most corporate firewalls block domains under a certain age, so it will just be a matter of time.