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

.ml is Mali

.ee is Estonia

.tv is Tuvalu

.ca is Canada

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.

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.

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!