I see. I actually think it's good you posted this on here, so that we all are aware that there might be problems/downtime in relation to this and possibly a domain change. I'm sorry if I sounded too annoyed in my previous comment, that was annoyance at some of the Redditor types over there, not annoyance at you.

Does the FMHY owner have any information on what exactly happened? Did they get notified that the registration for their .ml domain got canceled? Any stated reasons? Or it just stopped loading one day and they figured that it's related to that? It would be good to know, for deciding how big of a concern it really is for Lemmy. (Sorry if all this is a stupid question, I'm not sure how exactly domain registration works.)

I'm also kind of confused when this taking back is happening. The FMHY post says "ongoing", while the domainincite.com article makes it seem like it's a thing in the near future. Any actual sources (especially any official statement by the entities involved) would be good. Searching for phrases like "Mali taking back .ml TLD" or "Mali TLD transfer" doesn't find me anything.

Though it does find this weird cluster of recent articles suddenly complaining about people misspelling .mil as .ml: