shishcat

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Comment · 2 months ago
archive.org: Loading...

http://oxalpha.com/ | 14:05:51 July 13, 2025

Got an HTTP 302 response at crawl time

Redirecting to...

https://www.afternic.com/forsale/oxalpha.com?traffic_id=GoDa...

you have your answer:)))

Comment · 2 months ago
I’d love a subsidized Kimi subscription too. The official Kimi subscription is always out of stock and doesn’t have great limits, while the K3 allotments on OpenCode and Cursor don’t seem to last very long either.
Comment · 3 months ago
"The most common translation for "naked" in French is nu (masculine) or nue (feminine)."

NU is the country code for Niue.

Not Nauru. Nauru is NR.

NU is an interesting story, the control of the domain was granted in exchange for providing internet services to the island, and its operation was later transferred to the Swedish Internet Foundation. The islanders want the domain back

Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
No I am not sarcastic, I think it's sad that countries give up the autonomy of controlling their sovereign domain to random foreign American companies
Comment · 3 months ago
DNS pre-screen delegation detected for t.me watch=. scan=55461 previous: CLEAR_UNDELEGATED now: TAKEN_DELEGATED NS=ns-cloud-b1.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-b2.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-b3.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-b4.googledomains.com rcode=NOERROR server=a0.nic.me

Fixed.

Comment · 3 months ago
Absolutely. According to a recent Montenegro government document, doMEn is owned by: GoDaddy.com LLC 38.352% Identity Digital Limited 36.848% ME-net (local montenegrinian network) 24.8%.

doMEn is the registry of .ME.

Comment · 3 months ago
You're right, their fault is not choosing to manage it themselves
Comment · 3 months ago
OFAC just announced sanctions against a VPN provider that had a t.me link listed as its website. I wonder if that's what triggered the t.me ban? They saw the domain in the filing and went, "Yep, ban the whole thing."
Comment · 3 months ago
I found this post: "I contacted Identity Digital, the registry operator for the .ME domain zone, to request the reason why t.me was placed on "serverHold".

The company has now responded and confirmed that the domain was suspended due to OFAC-related compliance requirements.

The domain t.me has been placed on serverHold due to OFAC-related compliance requirements

Identity Digital also stated that, under its agreements with accredited registrars, it cannot provide further details directly to third parties. Any additional communication regarding the registry action must go through the domain's registrar, GoDaddy." [weird response, this is a serverHold, not a client lock]

As you can see, the Montenegrin government is NOT at fault. It’s a decision made by the two biggest stakeholders in the .ME registry, which together hold over 70%: the American companies GoDaddy and Identity Digital. In my opinion, it’s extremely sad that the countries managing TLDs have so little autonomy and are also constantly accused of doing wrong when it’s not their fault.

Comment · 3 months ago
FYI, 75,2% of doMEn d.o.o. is controlled by American companies (GoDaddy.com LLC 38.352%, Identity Digital Limited 36.848%)
Comment · 3 months ago
.eu :troll:
Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
Interesting read from 2004: https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2004/12/20/we-were-sold-...

But I strongly disagree with your conclusion. gTLDs are also run by profit-driven companies and operate under ICANN's US-rooted system. ccTLDs at least offer some jurisdictional autonomy and diversity.

And many "trendy" ccTLDs are not actually run by unstable local governments. .me, for example, is operated with GoDaddy and Identity Digital, while .to relies on Tucows, a Canadian company.

So the irony is that these ccTLDs often end up controlled or technically managed by the same North American companies you consider more trustworthy. Very few small/island countries actually manage their ccTLD directly, which is extremely sad.

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