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.is might be a choice, since archive.is continues to be available despite many legal threats You don't have to be an Icelandic national to register a .is
by walrus01 4mo ago
.is might be a choice, since archive.is continues to be available despite many legal threats
You don't have to be an Icelandic national to register a .is
- pixel_popping 4mo ago.is is a very resilient TLD indeed, and it's well known in some communities.
- floam 4mo agoisis
- arikrahman 4mo agoIt's a pretty good heuristic if some of the more targeted communities choose a TLD and stay up for some time.
- mfkp 4mo agohow about .to? that's what i'm mainly using for my url shortener/redirects and haven't run into any issues... yet
- ButlerianJihad 4mo ago[flagged]
- walrus01 4mo ago> American business based in America and doing business that benefits American citizens, rather than some random banana republic. This makes a huge presumption of rock solid stability of political/economic system, that America is not going the direction of a banana republic, in terms of graft, corruption and patronage, which it certainly seems to be these days.
- ButlerianJihad 4mo agoBeing an American citizen, I prefer to do business with American entities, regardless of what shitty opinion her detractors may express. I am loyal to her, more loyal than I would be to Tonga, or Montenegro, just to choose some random examples.
- walrus01 4mo agoI don't think you're wrong that tiny pacific island nations are not stable or reliable, at this point they're all either a client state of China, the USA or Australia. But I think it's also unfair and mean spirited to say that a country like Nauru (barely a country, IMHO, population of 12500 people) is "prostituting" itself by allowing 3rd party registrars to sell domains for a profit, since they have basically no other resource with the bird guano originated phosphate mines now being stripped clean. Would I use a Nauru domain? No. Do I go out of my way to insult them on the internet? Also no.
- shishcat 4mo agoBtw, I highly doubt Nauru makes much money selling their ccTLD, they manage it directly on the island and each domain costs a whopping 500$/year. Better examples: Tuvalu (.TV), Anguilla (.AI) Both of these countries (anguilla is not independent though) only get a cut of the money from the domains; all the technical management is done by GoDaddy for .TV and Identity Digital for .AI. In my opinion, very sad. .AI was run by a local guy in Anguilla (Vince Cate) utilizing the https://cocca.org.nz/ https://cocca.org.nz/ domain SaaS, but Identity Digital took over in late 2024.
- ventegus 4mo agokiwifarms and sci-hub have been kicked off .is
- trollbridge 4mo agoBased on that heuristic, .st is a very good domain, as is .gl (which hosts Anna’s-archive’s registration).
- stickfigure 4mo ago.st went down for most of a day: https://blorn.com/post/29851770158/beware-cutesy-two-letter-tlds-for-your-domain-name https://blorn.com/post/29851770158/beware-cutesy-two-letter-... Little TLDs may be poorly run. Would not trust again.
- bombcar 4mo agoTechnical failures are different from procedural ones (didn’t verisign blow up dot com or something years ago?). The future is domain resiliency - whether that’s via apps or other methods.
- trollbridge 4mo agoI currently check Wikipedia to find out the current domain for sites that are subject to frequent takedowns.
- Chu4eeno 4mo agowikipedia happily censors domains, it's not a free speech community.
- ventegus 4mo agoThey operate in antiphase: annas-archive.st and sci-hub.gl are suspended. This couple checked all the domain zones money can buy and... ended up using different sets, with zero intersection