Updated the new domain article with an edit about the Freenom Meta lawsuit

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The day after, while I was again at the ADA, I was highly stressed trying to reconfigure the server domain while paying attention to the activities of the Academy, but luckily by the time I got home I managed to **restore the website, the downloads repo, the Git server and the Nextcloud instance**, but my devices still required changes or resets of certain app settings (e.g. the Nextcloud sync client, the browsers). I deployed **a new mail server**, now no longer using Yandex like last time, using [Luke Smith's emailwiz script](https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/emailwiz/) and also had to update my PGP key and a bunch of accounts to have the new address. The two things that are still not working are the **Matrix and XMPP servers** and it's not easy (as far as I can tell) to bring them up online without having to **purge all their data and start from scratch**.
In conclusion I would advise anybody trying to spin up their own server to **avoid Freenom at all costs**, get one of those cheap .xyz domains or something since I don't reccommend .gg domains either because they tend to be quite expensive (luckily I got a discount, not sponsored), any registrar will do as long as it's not them. I'd advise you to take a read at [this Hosting Revelations article](https://hostingrevelations.com/is-freenom-safe/) that talks shit about them exposing their fucked up practices and past, you could also look for other people's reviews on sites like Quora, TrustPilot, Ycombinator and Reddit.
### Edit from May 5th
I discovered that Freenom stopped working because they got sued by Meta due to the constant phishing that was going on with their free domains. [More detail here](https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/03/sued-by-meta-freenom-halts-domain-registrations/).