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[–] neshura@bookwormstory.social 56 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I suspect they skipped checking who controls that domain at the time and just saw that it would make for a good name. Not good practice but I can see how that happened.

The only shame here is that there is no way for an instance to "prove" it is the successor to a defunct domain.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A lot of Lemmy and Mastadon instances have really obnoxious names. I hope they learn from this as use a conventional domain/TLD, and not some random ass countries who could get taken away at any minute.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is my instance in danger? 😱 Will Luxembourg disappear overnight?

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You never know when the Luxembourgish taliban will take over.

[–] Tristaniopsis@aussie.zone 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

NOONE EXPECTS THE LUXEMBORGIAN TALIBAN!

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The fact that pornhub is HQ’d in Luxembourg leads me to believe this will be some sort of sexy taliban

[–] Llewellyn@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Stupid sexy Taliban!

[–] ammonium@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We are ready to reunite Luxembourg any day now, better get ready to move to the be tld.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] ammonium@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

No, of course not

[–] NekkoDroid@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago

I suspect they skipped checking who controls that domain at the time and just saw that it would make for a good name. Not good practice but I can see how that happened.

https://kbin.social/m/random/p/4648694/To-the-people-who-are-like-What-did-you-expect

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Ahh. I have several domains and a lot of experience with managing various services, but I'm unfamiliar with any requirements regarding the federation process itself. I imagine this may be challenging, but not impossible to handle. Yet another level of suck in this situation.