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Prolly a noob question but why was the .ml TLD chosen in the first place?
It was free
I can see that it's enticing to get a free domain... But domain costs are trivial. Like $10 a year, why risk it?
Well, I guess they just learned the hard way
The scuttlebutt is that it's a inside joke by the far-left dev of lemmy to stand for marxist-leninist, but it's just as likely, if not more, that it was chosen because it's free.
Keep in mind that most (all?) two-letter TLDs are associated with a country. This includes stuff like
.io
,.tv
, and.me