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db0 @lemmy.dbzer0.com

2mo ago

Itch.io games site taken down

Cross-posted from "Itch.io games site taken down" by @moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com in !technology@lemmy.world

Bluesky Post (this was also posted on twitter)

I was hoping to find a statement from the aggressor, but it seems to be too early.

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moosetwin @lemmy.dbzer0.com

2mo ago

Itch.io games site taken down

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That's some bullshit. Looks like it's time for a new registrar.
- It wasn’t a great domain to own anyway:
  https://web.archive.org/web/20220128141550/https://gigaom.com/2014/06/30/the-dark-side-of-io-how-the-u-k-is-making-web-domain-profits-from-a-shady-cold-war-land-deal/
  
  It also might disappear in the next few years, with the British Indian Ocean Territory ceasing to exist.
  
  to top it off, the problem was a "serverHold" which as I understand can only be initiated by the top-level domain registrar, so the only way to make sure it doesn't happen again is not to use a .io domain

I would ask if this is the future we want, but it's already here.
- I hope it results in garbage fires of such huge scale that anything labelled with AI will carry a stigma for the next few years

Still online for me. I assume it's back up/resolved?

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