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I am a foreigner living and working in Germany. Its a perfectly safe and pleasant country to live in.


It sure is, until it isn't. And it strongly depends on where you are in the country. I highly doubt you live comfortably in a Nazi area.


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That's of course not true in the slightest, but it is the image the new Nazi party is painting. I recommend you stop consuming afd content.


Regarding your knowledge on this topic your recommendation is an insult. Every month a crazy asylum seeker drives into a crowd of people here, I don’t make this up look it up. All kinds of outdoor festivities are undergoing brutal security regulations, making them unprofitable and many don’t even happen anymore because of this. Not even mentioning the knife crimes which are absurdly. Nazi crimes are the lowest they have been in history. Most problematic are the antisemitic tendencies from the Palestinian movement at the moment.


> Every month a crazy asylum seeker drives into a crowd of people here,

Did you forget (or not hear) the Magdeburg x-mas market car attacker was an AfD supporter and antiislamic? And the Mannheim one was a German gardener with "Reichsbürger" connections?

It doesn't quite make for snappy headlines, so a lot of people never hear these details…


The Madgeburg terrorist is a Saudi Arabic refugee which dislikes the Islam and not really an AfD supporter, but mentioned that he liked some position regarding the Islam critique the party has.

The Mannheim terrorist is indeed a German but I guess that the exception confirms the rule.

Overall all extrem attacks if from right, left, foreigners are an issue and need to be adressed accordingly. The problem which the Germany people have with the current state of affairs is that the bad behaving asylum seekers mostly the ones from the middle east get a soft treatment to say the least when they commit heinous crimes and the deterrence of appropriate punishment through law and order is not given.


You call someone who has lived in Germany for 18 years a refugee, and dismiss his AfD sympathies. That says nothing about him and everything about you really.

Try to look a little bit beyond your polarized bubble. I'll be happy to meet you halfway there.


Well he is official an political refugee in Germany because of his anti islamic activist activity, his origin country wants to prosecute him. He was until his arrest an anti islamic activist and had a very active social media presence in which he lamented about the way Europe and especially Germany are handling the refugee crisis which are mostly Muslims. In this context he reposted and referred to some AFD politicians and their position on the crisis. Does that make him an AFD supporter?

Afaik his social media was so messy that people would connect him to various even contradicting things. That the big press settled with AFD supporter after they found some repost is lazy and misleading.


This clearly isn't going anywhere. Let's pull up https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_Terroranschl%C3%A4... instead. It seems roughly 50/50 islamist and Nazi terrorists (with 2 left terrorists mixed in.)

If we can agree that half the problem is Nazis and the other half is Islamists, I'm OK with that. Deal?

(Yes I'm ignoring the left attacks. They targeted objects/property, not people.)


The current advice from the German government to me (a trans woman) is that I am ineligible to enter the US and will be detained at the border for presenting 'fraudulently'.


You can get your documentation corrected an then enter.


The letter's author here. I'm actually British, living in Germany. By the standards of Europe the US has gone completely mad.


I run a domain registrar. "serverHold" is not a status that iwantmyname could've set. If they had suspended the domain it'd have "clientHold" set. Server Hold means the registry (i.e. .io directly) has suspended the domain. Your best bet would be to contact the Internet Computer Bureau Ltd who run .io at admin@icb.co.uk, or the registry technical support provider Identity Digital at techsupport@identity.digital.


Interesting, this morning I got a response from a staff member of the parent company that owns iwantmyname saying they didn't get my response with regards to the abuse notification they sent and that's why they took the domain down.


Are you sure you got a serverLock and not a clientLock?


I don't think anyone went and checked the whois database at that time that can corroborate the story.


I've heard a ton of stories about .io, IMO, they play fast and loose in a space where that isn't okay, and they get away with it mostly because they are a ccTLD.

The last time someone I knew had an issue, they had to get a senator to make waves to get anything resolved.


I regret going with .io for my personal domain name. At the time I thought it was cool, but they've since raised prices and hearing things like this doesn't instill confidence...


That, and the Indian Ocean territory will cease to exist in the (very) near future, so the .io domains might be going the way of the dodo. I won't be registering any new ones at least, and recommending everyone to stay away from them.


And isn't .io on borrowed time, since the country will soon no longer exist?


Do they get rid of TLDs once the country they are assigned to goes away? I assumed they'd sell them to someone or something.


Nobody really knows. There are only a few precedents, i.e. the old Soviet Union .su tld being kept around, or the 2 letter country code that I can't recall which was reassigned to a new country after the old one went out of existence.

There isn't really a precedent for a tld with as many domains under it as .io, it's a very strong possibility it will be kept around and given to a private entity or even to GB.


.cs for Czechoslovakia lasted from 1990 to 1995.

.yu for Yugoslavia ran from 1989 to 2010.

Wikipedia has comprehensive articles on both of those ccTLDs, if you're interested in learning more


They might not have much of a choice but to shut down all .io domains. This video explains a little: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yJ6AZsUlpc


Who is "they".


Yes, it will be deleted; see: https://www.iana.org/help/cctld-retirement


.su is still around.


That's why they are shutting .io to not make the same mistake again


What registrar do you run?



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