domain renewal and TLD outages

[electron0zero]

https://lobste.rs/s/plhit5/lobste_rs_domain_renewal_outage and more details in https://lobste.rs/s/plhit5/lobste_rs_domain_renewal_outage#c_mzxpnu

interesting failure mode.

also same things happened went down with .af tld went down as well

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35677341

https://www.reuters.com/technology/brokeaf-goes-offline-afghan-web-domains-suspended-amid-payment-dispute-2024-02-16/

.club tld also had issues: https://www.thestack.technology/club-domain-tld-outage/

tld can be removed if a country is no longer around, https://superuser.com/questions/1646372/can-top-level-domains-disappear-if-countries-cease-to-exist-malfunction

also good read: https://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2024/02/13/not-all-tlds-are-created-equal.html

tip of the day: stay away from funky and country specific TLDs for serious things.