• RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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      The parent domain was apparently well known to be a common host of phishing domains and scam sites. Free domains tend to attract those types, so that’s a good reason from the start not to use that if you want your site to be reliably accessible and findable on search engines.

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      My work uses zScaler for its Internet web filters. zScaler has everything *.ml blocked.

      So yeah, it’s fairly well-known to be sketchy.

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          Or maybe realising anything ending in .ml was most likely spam and if it caught the 5 legitimate Mali domains oh well, zero loss for anyone.

          Kinda like how I wouldn’t download a file from a .ru site.

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      I did, I just messed up and didn’t tell anybody. I’m sorry folks, this is on me.

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      Yes. Hosting a service in a country other than where a TLD is designated for is bad practice and common knowledge for any web developer