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I think it's also about awareness. Most people don't know that IO or other smaller TLDs are unreliable.
by tschellenbach 9y ago
I think it's also about awareness. Most people don't know that IO or other smaller TLDs are unreliable.
- CamperBob2 9y agoThey aren't unreliable. This article blows up a single minor incident into a controversy of epic proportions.
- sokoloff 9y agoThe incident was far from minor IMO. I think .io has had 6+ hours of downtime (full or partial/non-trivial) this year, long enough to push the annual availability down to 99.93% from what I recall from memory of reading post-mortems. That was enough to spur us to begin planning to move production traffic off our .io domain as well.
- dx034 9y agoDid any of the large TLDs (.com/.net/.de/.fr/.co.uk) have an outage like that in the last decade? Not being available for several hours can severely damage businesses. Startups that haven't built trust yet as well as some large companies. Imagine a bank's website not being available for several hours. It doesn't matter if it's a DNS issue, people would start panicking very quickly.