What's the .ml in lemmy.ml stand for?

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Dick_Justice@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y

It's the top level internet country code for Mali.

someguy3@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 3y

.ml is Mali

.ee is Estonia

.tv is Tuvalu

.ca is Canada

tara@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

It’s just a country code like others mention. Also I imagine it doubles as the “Marxist-Leninist” acronym in some people’s eyes given the developers’ ideology.

yarn@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 3y

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ml

.ml is the internet country code top-level domain for the country of Mali. According to wikipedia, Mali is giving away .ml domains for free in an affort to promote their IT industry. I suspect that's the reason why some instances chose .ml domains. But that's just a guess from me.

EtnaAtsume@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Thanks, everyone! I too had found the mali result in my own searches, but that didn't seem to make sense to me. Guess it was true after all!

Madbrad200@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

Well, it's also worth noting the creators of lemmy.ml are communist and ML is probably a neat way of linking it to Marxist-Leninism.