• hitagi@ani.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    13
    ·
    1 year ago

    Thanks for answering. I figured it was a registrar thing. How bad do you think the situation will be for other .ml domains?

    I’m guessing fmhy.ml was using Freenom but lemmy.ml and lemmy.ml were using a different domain registrar, hence the situation right now.

    • hemmes@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      34
      ·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, not a good situation.

      The main story I found seems to indicate that many government communications have been misdirected due to the typo of .ml instead of the intended .mil - reserved for the US military. 🤦‍♂️ There has been an entrepreneur that holds the contract to manage Mali’s country domain and that’s expiring Monday (24th?). I’m assuming the government is not renewing the contract and will instead be taking over the domains and any related data. He has been collecting some of that data and warning the US government about the issue to no avail…for 10 years.

      Control of the .ML domain will revert on Monday from Zuurbier to Mali’s government, which is closely allied with Russia. When Zuurbier’s 10-year management contract expires, Malian authorities will be able to gather the misdirected emails. The Malian government did not respond to requests for comment.

      Their contents include X-rays and medical data, identity document information, crew lists for ships, staff lists at bases, maps of installations, photos of bases, naval inspection reports, contracts, criminal complaints against personnel, internal investigations into bullying, official travel itineraries, bookings, and tax and financial records.

      ICANN is the body responsible for the gTLD initiative, which gives you names like .social and .world. They are an American non-profit with a multinational committee, handling nearly all of the databases that store our Internet address records, etc., you can be relatively assured that your domain won’t be messed with.

      The instances really have no option here than to test out moving their systems to an alternative domain and “bench test” their migration to discover a path that works or a least come to the conclusion to start all over.

        • Crismus@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          13
          ·
          1 year ago

          Totally understandable incompetence from the military.

          I think I only have a few original pages from my service. Most just disappear.

          • hemmes@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            Yeah, they should just block ingress/egress to any .ml. Maybe they keep it open for misinformation campaigns.