[HN Gopher] .club domains are not resolving
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.club domains are not resolving
Author : sergiomattei
Score : 48 points
Date : 2021-10-07 16:25 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| asddubs wrote:
| .ws has been down a few times this year too
| jaywalk wrote:
| More accurate title: .club domains _were_ not resolving. Looks
| like this issue was fixed hours ago.
| [deleted]
| 1MachineElf wrote:
| A lot of the newish gTLDs are relatively expensive, but .club is
| typically below $20/yr.
| collegeburner wrote:
| We should not have a domain system. Any person should be able to
| register any domain just like with the left half, like I should
| be able to get hi.lolthisdomaindoesntexist as a domain. I should
| get it straight from ICANN for a low flat fee. This is how we fix
| the sketchy registrars and "premium domain" nonsense.
|
| </Rant>
|
| Edit: fixed wrong word
| rudian wrote:
| I agree with the "straight from ICANN" part. Having a private
| entity maintain your address is not unlike
| yourname.someoneelse.com, you're at their whim.
| collegeburner wrote:
| Also I see no reason why ICANN has given out the right to
| sell these domains to private companies that do nothing but
| seek extra rent on the ICANN domain price. Let alone why
| governments were given control of the two letter domains, so
| ly can kick you off if Lybia thinks you have something
| objectionable.
| duskwuff wrote:
| Because ICANN doesn't want to be in the business of running
| a couple hundred domain registries. They are not _at all_
| equipped to do that, either on a technical or a staffing
| level.
| jakedata wrote:
| I was an early user of the .storage TLD and registered a domain
| for three years. Fortunately I did not build my core business
| around that particular domain - a new registrar took it over
| and wants thousands of dollars for the renewal. I don't think
| there is much if any protection for predatory pricing on gTLD
| renewals.
| DaveExeter wrote:
| homeboy.storage $550.18 /year homeboy.storage
| $999.99 for the first year
|
| Ha ha ha! Crazy price. Second one is godaddy.
| yabones wrote:
| The inconvenient reality of domain "ownership" is that you
| don't own anything at all. You rent it, and there's no
| control on increases or fees like other types of rent/lease.
| It's sort of like renting a car for a year and being
| surprised you don't have any equity when you turn it back in.
| collectordrx wrote:
| Sure, I agree with the principal of the idea. Decentralization
| is always a great thing and having a few gatekeepers for the
| popular TLDs is not ideal. In reality though I am not sure how
| this would work from a DNS perspective. If anyone can define a
| TLD, you would need mappings of those at a DNS root level. This
| is a pretty high burden on the root resolvers. You would almost
| need to decentralize the root functionality of DNS. This would
| pretty much take a rewrite of how DNS clients function as root
| resolvers are normally hard coded in. Anyone have thoughts?
| Tajnymag wrote:
| Wouldn't domain squating be even worse that way?
| collegeburner wrote:
| Domain squatting could be a problem, but we would have less
| of one with "investors" who speculate on "premium" domains.
| My mistake typing wrong word above, I've fixed it.
| nso wrote:
| Caused by Neustars DNS being down for 3 hours
| lostgame wrote:
| Fun fact: The only reason I was even aware .club is even a TLD
| was from when I signed up for Daft Punk's 'Daft Club' way back in
| the early '00's.
|
| I got a membership card in, I believe - my copy of 'Discovery'.
| CydeWeys wrote:
| .club was launched in 2014, so it wouldn't have been used for
| that.
| [deleted]
| type0 wrote:
| Any metrics on what TLDs are more unreliable than others and
| which one should avoid?
| skim_milk wrote:
| I made the mistake of buying a .co.de domain and putting my
| professional email on it. One time it was down for a couple of
| days, no .co.de domains would resolve and I couldn't get my
| emails, so I took it upon myself to find out who to contact and
| actually got them to fix it. Now they've improved and my email
| is down due to DNS issues only a few hours every quarter!
|
| Reliability is really bad for rare gLTD's, I would say don't
| even bother. Keep important systems on .com and friends.
| zamadatix wrote:
| .co.de is just a standard SLD you could have owned and
| operated if you had registered it like any other domain
| first. A gTLD requires significant up front investment and
| review+approval from ICANN after demonstration you have the
| technical capacity to run it, as well as being an actual top
| level domain.
|
| Not that every gTLD is the pinnacle of reliability (see this
| post) but your experience with a generic SLD isn't indicative
| of anything in this case.
| foepys wrote:
| Aren't a lot of ccTLDs and most new gTLDs nowadays hosted by
| a few big DNS providers? When .io was found to be vulnerable
| to a takeover attack a few years ago they switched to one of
| those providers. I don't know which, though.
| Tepix wrote:
| .co.de is just a random 2-letter domain
|
| We only have .de as TLD in Germany and everything below it is
| anarchy.
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