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3 months ago

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nope, works for me (in EU)

3 months ago

Some domains are working but many are not. first hit on DDG: stuffin.space

3 months ago

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Doesn't work for me either right now. Google apps is also failing to resolve it.

3 months ago

Wonder why some are working. I am searching DDG with “site:.space”

3 months ago

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Down for us as well.

3 months ago

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Email seems to be affected as well :(

3 months ago

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Whois isn't even showing the domains and name servers. Not to mention DNS records. Its like the domains don't exist anymore.

3 months ago

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Is there a “status page” for TLDs?

3 months ago

No idea. Never actually seen a failure like this in practise.

3 months ago

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The .space zone seems to have gone from 973093 domains to 447730

3 months ago

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Where did you get that number?

3 months ago

CentralNIC

https://support.centralnicreseller.com/hc/en-gb/articles/917...

3 months ago

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I contacted spaceship.com support, and they said there's a problem with this TLD.

3 months ago

Thanks for the info!

3 months ago

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@dang or anyone Can someone push this up since it’s becoming quite serious and I don’t know what to do.

3 months ago

Agreed, let's upvote this thread higher to get some eyes on this.

3 months ago

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Namecheap also reported it: https://www.namecheap.com/status-updates/issue-with-space-do...

3 months ago

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Thanks - at least I’m not going mad.

3 months ago

indeed, I was just on their support prior to that getting posted. lol

3 months ago

update: my site is back online now.

3 months ago

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Manually repropagate, I just added the NS records again (removed, saved, re-added) and it worked.

3 months ago

also did this, hasnt resolved yet.

3 months ago

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My .space domains seem to work again

3 months ago

It seems to ping-pong back and forth. Our monitoring is basically spamming us with DNS down, DNS up every 5 minutes or so.

3 months ago

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So we resolved this by switching away from Cloudflare handling our DNS to revert it back to our domain service provider (Namecheap). This made our site available again.

Now we've switched it back to Cloudflare and still looks up.

So something in changing it seems to have jiggled some bits somewhere.

/ turn it on and off again / I guess

3 months ago

Yup, appears to be an turn off turn on fix. Very frustrating though for such a critical piece of infrastructure

3 months ago

Looks like the zone file is back to normal size now.

3 months ago

Likely something at the root level went bananas.

https://www.iana.org/domains/root/servers

3 months ago

It works now