• humanreader@infosec.pub
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    1 year ago

    FYI, two letter TLDs are country/region/jurisdiction specific. There’s an ISO standard for that.

    • .tv Tuvalu
    • .me Montenegro
    • .fm (Federation of) Micronesia

    Some countries append additional modifiers to classify their uses:

    • .uk United Kingdom
    • .co.uk Company

    Three or more are generic (traditional or new)

    • .com, .net, .org, …

    In some cases, Uncle Sam said “first!” and it stuck.

    • .edu Education (MURICA)
    • .mil Military (MURRICA)
    • .gov Government (MURRRICA)

    Just like what happens with Mali, what some silicon valley hipsters decide as a ‘fun’ acronym is just that, a fun thought. If the corresponding government decides to take away a specific domain, they probably can.

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      .mil Military (MURRICA)

      That is what made this whole .ml problem. Some people have apparently accidentally leaked American state secrets to Mali by typo.

      • FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
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        That’s a poor excuse. If something is secret or higher it has a different TLD. The SIPRnet uses .smil for example. There are also tools at the boundaries that don’t allow going from SIPR to NIPR unless they meet specific criteria. Basically you can only leak those secrets accidentally if they were already on a system they shouldn’t have been on.

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          Additionally, competent IT would make this fuck up impossible. I’m shocked that they didn’t whitelist TLDs and block all others.

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      • .edu Education (MURICA)

      .edu is not only american. For example I know many schools in France have .edu domains and emails, and I believe it’s the case in many more countries.

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      Thanks for the clarification. If this instance goes down please someone start an ‘‘lemmy.ai’’ instance. I want to follow the same logic that I went with since the beginning.

      • chrisA
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        That’s a generic top-level domain. It is not associated with any country. It belongs to “Identity Digital Inc.”.