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iusearchlinux.fyi gone too. I'm glad feddit.ch at least announced this.
I don’t understand how they didn’t use .btw instead of .fyi for that instance.
No sure if this is a serious question, but .btw is not a TLD while .fyi is.
You can if you want to support the hosting of the requisite infrastructure https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/global-support/faqs/faqs-en
The TLD TL;DR is basically that domains don't come out of nowhere. Just like how you need a lemmy.zip domain to be able to have the subdomains next.lemmy.zip or old.lemmy.zip, in order to have the domain lemmy.zip you must first have someone to run the .zip top-level domain (in this case, Google)
Like Forester mentioned in the other comment, you can have any combination of letters you want as a TLD, you just have to set up and manage all the infra for it (or find somebody else to do it for you)
And that's why it is recommended to use instances where they have a Matrix or a Mastodon channel so that you can communicate outside of Lemmy
Where did they announce that care to share the post ?
https://sh.itjust.works/post/16348756
I just now noticed it was gone. Did it just vanish one day, or did its users at least have some hint?
edit: looks like it was a surprise: https://lemmyverse.link/mander.xyz/post/12163154