Hi, I hope this is the right community. I want to get a domain name for my own Lemmy instance. The one I have in mind is on auction on sedo.com.

I have no experience with acquiring a domain via auction. Is the price a one time fee for transfering the domain, and then the usual yearly fees (as for that TLD) applies, or is the price meant as yearly fee? I tried to find some info on this on the auction site but have not found a sufficient note.

Has anyone of you bought a domine name like that? Thanks for your help.

Let's consider this horror scenario:

Suddenly Lemmy.ml fails, and the admins realise with a shock, that the backup didn't work properly.

What would happen if Lemmy.ml was setup from scratch or only old backup where there were only a small fraction of the users present?

• Communities/posts/comments that don't exist anymore after the reinstall → Obviously they can't be accessed anymore, and I guess this will be federated to other instances (they won't also be available there anymore)
• Communities/posts/comments of Lemmy.ml users that were made on other instances → These are stored there, they should still be accessable, but
  • Would the unavailable users just be linked to nothing
  • Would the users names that were available in the old backup be linked back to Lemmy.ml? Would these posts again be visible in the Lemmy.ml user history?

Wär doch e gueti Glägeheit gsi öppis besser z mache als uf Reddit, nid?