I asked this as a comment on my previous post, but I still have some questions. 1: If ML stands for Mali and they’re not from Mali, then why would they represent a foreign country? 2: Since it’s not Mali, what does the ML stand for? If it’s a pair of letters, it represents a country or stands for two words. Machine Learning? McCartney Lennon? Mega Lemmy?

  • Silverseren@kbin.social
    32·
    1 year ago

    It’s the Mali top level domain. The devs were just originally looking for a cheap domain to use.

    Though I would expect they purposefully looked for one that let them have a dual-meaning, since the .ml also stands for Marxist-Leninist, as the devs are big Russia, China, and North Korea supporters.

    • livus@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      And by “cheap” we mean literally free in some cases.

      Mali’s government was letting Freenom manage it. So it was a free domain name like .tk, with all the problems that entails with misuse.

      Tagging you @favrion because no one seems to have mentioned this, and I think it answers your question.