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Re: .io domains down?

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Post by thecodemonkey »

aeden wrote: post #10

Anthony from DNSimple here. I'll pass along what I know so far: some of nic.io's name servers appear to be no longer delegating .io domains out to authoritative name servers. Some of their name servers are still delegating properly, but some are not. This issue also affects .sh and .ac TLDs I believe since they are the same registry. If I find out anything new I'll post on Twitter in the @dnsimple account and here.

That would explain why it's not consistent globally. I have an odd example here from my location: https://gist.github.com/MiniCodeMonkey/5729249

Re: .io domains down?

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Post by dedene »

andyhmltn wrote: post #6
andyhmltn wrote: post #4

Nope: Our sites (fine.io, fry.io) are up

It would appear that fry.io is actually down. That's the one hosted with nic.io. This is why I wanted to move away from them. They are really incompetent.

Is it possible to move away with them? I mean, aren't they finally responsible for delegating all .io domains to the correct nameservers?

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Post by andyhmltn »

dedene wrote: post #12
andyhmltn wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would appear that fry.io is actually down. That's the one hosted with nic.io. This is why I wanted to move away from them. They are really incompetent.

Is it possible to move away with them? I mean, aren't they finally responsible for delegating all .io domains to the correct nameservers?

I thought it was as I transferred fine.io over to someone else because I found out nic.io were storing passwords in plain text. Sadly, it seems not. It's quite frustrating to know your business is essentially at the mercy of people that don't know what they are doing.

Re: .io domains down?

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Post by aeden »

dedene wrote: post #12
andyhmltn wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would appear that fry.io is actually down. That's the one hosted with nic.io. This is why I wanted to move away from them. They are really incompetent.

Is it possible to move away with them? I mean, aren't they finally responsible for delegating all .io domains to the correct nameservers?

It is not possible to move away from them. nic.io is the registry for .io domains, so you can't move to anyone else. They also act as a registrar for their own TLD, so you could move to another registrar, but ultimately they're responsible for .io delegation.

Re: .io domains down?

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Post by dedene »

aeden wrote: post #10

Anthony from DNSimple here. I'll pass along what I know so far: some of nic.io's name servers appear to be no longer delegating .io domains out to authoritative name servers. Some of their name servers are still delegating properly, but some are not. This issue also affects .sh and .ac TLDs I believe since they are the same registry. If I find out anything new I'll post on Twitter in the @dnsimple account and here.

Indeed, http://www.icb.co.uk seems to be responsible for all those TLDs.
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