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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Quick, genuine question because I don't know: What does the "ml" in [email protected] stand for? I thought it was for Marxist-Leninist but I'm actually not sure about that

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the TLD for the country of Mali

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

.ml domains were "free" until recently, so many used them for their small scale projects. I did as well.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

As the others said.

Though the admins/devs ARE Marxist-Leninists, to be fair.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Malding Liberals

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is the designation for the US military

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The US military has the .mil extension, not .ml

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's fine. Just send your classified documents. It's cool.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

you're laughing. I lost my free domain name and you're laughing?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TopRamenBinLaden 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's actually the top level domain for the country of Mali, but it was probably chosen as a tongue in cheek reference to marxist-leninism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I totally thought it was for Marxist-Leninist back when I first signed up 😌