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Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down
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Could they not just go with ".mali" as their governtal extension? It's only two more characters. Why mess with all of the existing .ml stuff on the internet?
The country codes are an ISO standard. IANA uses these for country TLDs, they don't set the standard.
This was all done decades ago...