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The popular shadow library Anna's Archive has lost yet another domain name. The site's .pm domain was taken offline after international pressure on intermediaries continued to mount. That initially left the .li domain as the only option, but a Greenland-based backup was swiftly added.

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[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 82 points 2 days ago (1 children)

These sites are losing domain names left and right at the moment. The fucking copyright mafia is spending a lot of effort at the moment.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

The rich figured out that letting the plebes access the Internet was a mistake, and they are trying to take it back every way they possibly can.

[–] bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do they have an onion site? Feel like the clearnet isn't vibing rn

[–] Hafler@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

I was using the library of trantor's .onion for a long time. I would love an Annas .onion.

[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Alb@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Saint Pierre et Miquelon is a French territory next to Canada. No wonder they took it down so easely!

[–] electrotabby@piefed.social 9 points 2 days ago

Ah, I recognize their cool flag from my vexillology days. 🤓

[–] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

We really need to invent an independent domain name system. Interesting how many already exist but just nobody cares about...

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 36 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's interesting that they'd offer top-level domains, but not provide a certificate authority to generate (non-self-signed) ssl certs.

[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

Oh, that is fantastic (ACME integration too!)

Thanks for finding and sharing the link.

[–] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago

They have .gopher there. How cute...

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

Domain names are a fucking racket.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 day ago

I wonder how much of that could be mitigated if the ebooks were made officially DRM-free, or if people would be willing to buy but resort to illegal means because they don't want people owning stuff...

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

classic

Intended use
Entities connected with Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Actual use
Sees rare use, most of which is not related to Saint Pierre and Miquelon

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Reminds me of how a bunch of people lost their .af domain names when the Taliban took back over Afghanistan.

[–] magikmw@piefed.social 16 points 2 days ago
[–] luridness@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wonder how many TLDs there are left

[–] tyler@programming.dev 19 points 2 days ago
[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

.li has been working fine for me

[–] hornedfiend@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

i'm guessing ipfs is not an option.