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tl;dr their registrar, 101domains.com, failed to pay their registrar fees to the .sm TLD so all .sm domains registered through them got suspended dns outages a
by igor47 9y ago
tl;dr their registrar, 101domains.com, failed to pay their registrar fees to the .sm TLD so all .sm domains registered through them got suspended
dns outages are always a nightmare because of ttls, but bringing a registrar and a nontraditional TLD into the picture meant a much more extended outage.
- gtirloni 9y agoAnd in their case, makes it harder to remember their website address.
- ZenoArrow 9y agoEither you remember it or you don't. If you're going to guess it ends with ".com" you may as well save yourself the hassle and search for it using a search engine.
- rconti 9y agoI can't believe that 101domains didn't notice that nobody else's .sm domains were working either. You'd think after around a day they would have noticed some correlation in complaints. Or the .sm specialist would have. But yeah, don't use unnecessarily cheap infra for really critical stuff. I don't get the fetish around obscure TLDs with web pages straight out of 1995. http://nic.com.ai http://nic.com.ai
- bonesss 9y agoI'm gonna wager that .sm isn't too active with the registrar, and most of the sites are of a relatively low-traffic nature. If someone from the registrar starts checking the overall health of the TLD, or any domain they weren't directly responsible for, it may have seemed that "everything was ok" even though all their customer records were suspended...