495

lemmy.fmhy.ml is gone [update from the team] (very.bignutty.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by Blaze@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

178 comments fedilink hide all child comments

An update:

fmhy.ml is gone, due to the ongoing fiasco with mali government taking all their .ml domains back
As such, lemmy.fmhy.ml is also gone, we are currently exploring ways to refederate (or somehow restart federation entirely) without breaking anything substantial
We have backups, so don't worry about data loss (you can view them on other instances anyway)

Currently, we have fmhy.net and are exploring options to somehow migrate, thank you for your patience.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 74 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

WIll this also affect all other .ml domains? Or is this some anti-piracy thing? (I don't know fmhy, but from the name I guess it's about piracy.)

[-] Falldamage@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I understand it as the Mali government is taking back all the domains after a subletting contract ran out. A lot of sensitive emails that should go to .mil (US military) has been typo-sent to .ml-addresses instead. Here's some more reading.

(I am very tired here and might have misunderstood everything, please correct me if I am wrong)

[-] JshKlsn@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

Perhaps the military should have a system in place to not allow emails to be sent outside of very specific TLDs if it's that sensitive? And perhaps have an automated contact book, instead of relying on someone typing out the to: address manually to be able to make that mistake in the first place?

Seems like some very basic security measures for something so serious.