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Re: IO name servers down

#23

Post by gator-io »

I am so done with .io. This is one of many issues they've had in the last year.

My problem is that we have scripts all over customer websites hardcoded with api.gator.io

We're going to have to have them update the scripts and that is going to be a major pain.

Re: IO name servers down

#24

Post by badminton1 »

Well, the .io domain name is intended for the British Indian Ocean territory.

I think the common practice of misusing TLDs (such as registering an .io domain if you are not from the British Indian Ocean territory, or having a Soviet Union domain... a country that no longer exist), is bad.

However, I acknowledge this is not the root problem. The root problem is the scarcity of domains under traditional TLDs, and that's in great part due to speculation (e.g: domain parking). It is hard to establish what constitutes placeholder content, therefore rules preventing domain parking are hard if not unfeasible to forbid.

Re: IO name servers down

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Post by softawre »

gator-io wrote: post #23

I am so done with .io. This is one of many issues they've had in the last year. My problem is that we have scripts all over customer websites hardcoded with api.gator.io We're going to have to have them update the scripts and that is going to be a major pain.

Heh, it's even in your phone number

> 1-844-GATOR-IO

Re: IO name servers down

#26

Post by devnull42 »

steventhedev wrote: post #18
devnull42 wrote: post #10

It appears that the issue at first impacted all servers in the anycast pool however eventually it only impacted servers ns-a2 and ns-a4. Those servers started returning NXDOMAINs. I am wondering if this was related to the root server key change yesterday. .IO seems to struggle with basic DNS engineering. We are seeing stabilization except for minor issues still on one of the gTLD servers.

The root server key won't actually change until next month. The DNSKEY responses from the root server was increased yesterday. Speculation, but it could be they're running ancient versions of BIND that fail with the larger response size. As per ICANN[0], the timeline is: October 27, 2016: KSK rollover process begins as the new KSK is generated. July 11, 2017: Publication of new KSK in DNS. September 19, 2017: Size in…

Correct the actual key change isn’t until next month however yesterday there was a change in response size from the root servers.

Re: IO name servers down

#27

Post by ptenk »

badminton1 wrote: post #24

Well, the .io domain name is intended for the British Indian Ocean territory. I think the common practice of misusing TLDs (such as registering an .io domain if you are not from the British Indian Ocean territory, or having a Soviet Union domain... a country that no longer exist), is bad. However, I acknowledge this is not the root problem. The root problem is the scarcity of domains under traditional TLDs, and that'…

Thankfully built-in parking AdBlock on newer browsers is forcing domain speculators to start dropping their less valuable names, as parking pages are no longer producing any revenue. I see most tech companies coming back to .COM once their given domain is available / priced cheaply as speculators are forced to sell.
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