Post by @aral@mastodon.ar.al

Aral Balkan
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So maybe launching with small-web.org and having small-tech.org is not a good idea after all…

So what are safe TLDs? Is there even such a thing? Any TLDs not controlled by the US in one form or another? Any anti-fascist TLDs?

Hey @EUCommission, maybe this is the sort of thing you should be looking into given all your “digital sovereignty”, talk, hmm? Pretty easy one to fix, this one.

Benjamin Sonntag-King @benjamin@piaille.fr

@malteengeler

The domain names of
autistici.org / inventati.org (and noblogs.org) are now suspended.
.org being managed by a US entity they were forced to suspend them due to Autisti (the oldest leftwing Italian collective doing web and mail hosting) being declared a terrorist organisation by Trump

Even for WikiLeaks they didn't do that

The US are clearly a fascist state now....

And all your links to your blogs are now dead 😭🥴

(Editing so everyone knows: maybe not. They were dead a few hours ago but not anymore)
(subedit: autistici.org still dead, the other are fine for now)

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Aral Balkan
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@EUCommission Right, well, I’ve registered small-web.eu and small-tech.eu as backups for now.

Thankfully, with what I’ve built this year, the Small Web doesn’t need TLDs to work (see ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/) but still, here’s hoping it doesn’t come to that because it will be a right hassle to move stuff over.

Buy, hey, better safe than sorry.

And I’m definitely reconsidering my choices when it comes to payment services/merchant of record for Catalyst (the free/open Small Web hosting app I’m building).

#US #fascism #ICAAN #TLDs #internet #web #BigTech #BigWeb #EU #SmallWeb #SmallTech #webNumbers

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@aral @EUCommission Never thought we'd be going back to the pre-DNS /etc/hosts days, but I'm here for it!

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Aral Balkan
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@470m @EUCommission If we can achieve the usability of a phone book, I think we’ll be fine. No one remembers phone numbers these days because we don’t have to (and none of us use the Yellow Pages either) :)

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Benjamin
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@aral @EUCommission

Are we going to need to bring back the phone number jingle but for IP addresses?

🎶 One Three Five! One Eight One!
Four-Four dot Fifty! 🎶