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Re: .io domains down?

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Post by lucb1e »

aeden wrote: post #60
reggplant wrote: post #56

Hmm every .io domain on this page has worked for me even if I've never visited them before. Maybe my ISP (VirginMedia) has cached the records.

It's somewhat random, so it seems you had good luck today.

From what I read in this thread, the odds of it working is 2 in 7, so it's pretty likely a good portion of the commenters will say it works for them.

Re: .io domains down?

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Post by Hengjie »

aeden wrote: post #58
Hengjie wrote: post #52

I had the same problem with notable.ac The problem appears to have been resolved. The latest DNS queries show that it is now delegating properly.

Yep, it seems the same registry runs .io, .sh and .ac.

Yeah, I was deploying to Heroku when this roots error occurred. This screwed up the deploy (as it crashed in the middle) and just 500'ed on every page load. And meant every DNS request in my deploy chain that relied on *.notable.ac resolving ended up caching negative results. Luckily it's back up now :)

Re: .io domains down?

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Post by davidjgraph »

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.

ooo, you do 301 redirects, I'll be over shortly...

To explain why that's useful, we have three domains, draw.io (mutter), diagramly.com and diagram.ly that all map to the same thing. The actual site runs on a Google App Engine appspot domain. On GAE, you have to buy a Google Apps for Business account to map a domain to an GAE appspot domain.

We have three Apps accounts because of this. We're not happy to do the 301 on a physical server, that loses the scalability advantage of GAE. This has always needed to be done at the DNS level ( I know it's not truely a DNS feature, but I'm assuming the scaling of the redirects at someone who does it as a service is better than mine ). This is the first time I've seen this service. That's all...

Re: .io domains down?

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Post by nariman »

anonyfuss wrote: post #44
nariman wrote: post #31

We're back online at http://candid.io . Someone on twitter posted "VCs should think twice before investing in startups without a .com" -> I think that's patently absurd. Azure, AWS, and the other 'core infrastructure' services suffer similar outages form time to time.

When is the last time you heard of the .com infrastructure failing across the board? Just because you're exposed to some reliability risk doesn't mean that you can't expose yourself to more by using a smaller TLD.

Yes, you're taking on a bit more risk in the short-term... but everything's a trade-off, you're getting much back for a slightly elevated risk in having a short, concise, very meaningful (in our case) name that influences adoption. There's no other alternative -> .COM is a limited resource, only reasonable assumption is that reliability of other TLDs must improve in the long run.

Re: .io domains down?

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Post by astrodust »

aarondf wrote: post #65

Man, you think you plan for everything, and then your whole TLD just stops working. What's the best way to plan for something like this?

Have an alternate domain using completely different infrastructure.

Having a .com or .net as a backup domain, even if it isn't as sexy looking, doesn't hurt.

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