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.ws TLD Completely Offline

6 points by tw04 6y ago

The entire .ws TLD appears to be offline with no explanation as to why and no timeline for it to return. www.website.ws

nodex-alex 6y ago
works here
tw04 6y ago
I'm curious if anyone on HN has any idea what's going on. It seems crazy to me to lose an entire TLD in 2021. The most I could get in my searches was "unplanned maintenance".
rasengan 6y ago
This highlights one reason why you would want to have your own TLD on Handshake [1] instead of a leased subdomain. This way you aren’t subject to the uptime of another. [1] https://handshake.org https://handshake.org
dijit 6y ago
Mine is still working? (though it should just redirect to darkscience.net) http://www.darkscience.ws http://www.darkscience.ws
- tw04 6y ago
  TLD is back online now. I'm guessing in the interim your TTL was long enough to survive the outage.
  - smaccona 6y ago
    This happened yesterday morning also, DNS queries to .ws domains would result in NXDOMAIN. It also seemed intermittent - some clients would resolve names, some would not. Edit: See also this thread on CloudFlare: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/certain-broadband-providers-unable-to-connect-to-domain/249682 https://community.cloudflare.com/t/certain-broadband-provide.... It appears the TLD DNS servers for .ws are having issues. Edit 2: this is being tracked here: https://www.opensrsstatus.com/ https://www.opensrsstatus.com/
    - tw04 6y ago
      Awesome, thank you!
milankragujevic 6y ago
It works for me. Are you sure it's not just your corporate firewall blocking the whole tld? I've seen it done, since .ws domains are cheap and rarely seen, it's usually a phishing page. And so some IT departments block it.
paxo 6y ago
works fine
fusl 6y ago
This has been an ongoing issue in the last few weeks to the point where we had to move production systems away from .ws to another TLD to keep thingns running. See: https://twitter.com/OhNoItsFusl/status/1350119705189748742?s=19 https://twitter.com/OhNoItsFusl/status/1350119705189748742?s...

6 points by tw04 6y ago

The entire .ws TLD appears to be offline with no explanation as to why and no timeline for it to return. www.website.ws

nodex-alex 6y ago

works here

tw04 6y ago

I'm curious if anyone on HN has any idea what's going on. It seems crazy to me to lose an entire TLD in 2021. The most I could get in my searches was "unplanned maintenance".

rasengan 6y ago

This highlights one reason why you would want to have your own TLD on Handshake [1] instead of a leased subdomain. This way you aren’t subject to the uptime of another. [1] https://handshake.org https://handshake.org

dijit 6y ago

Mine is still working? (though it should just redirect to darkscience.net) http://www.darkscience.ws http://www.darkscience.ws

tw04 6y ago
TLD is back online now. I'm guessing in the interim your TTL was long enough to survive the outage.
- smaccona 6y ago
  This happened yesterday morning also, DNS queries to .ws domains would result in NXDOMAIN. It also seemed intermittent - some clients would resolve names, some would not. Edit: See also this thread on CloudFlare: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/certain-broadband-providers-unable-to-connect-to-domain/249682 https://community.cloudflare.com/t/certain-broadband-provide.... It appears the TLD DNS servers for .ws are having issues. Edit 2: this is being tracked here: https://www.opensrsstatus.com/ https://www.opensrsstatus.com/
  - tw04 6y ago
    Awesome, thank you!

milankragujevic 6y ago

It works for me. Are you sure it's not just your corporate firewall blocking the whole tld? I've seen it done, since .ws domains are cheap and rarely seen, it's usually a phishing page. And so some IT departments block it.

paxo 6y ago

works fine

fusl 6y ago

This has been an ongoing issue in the last few weeks to the point where we had to move production systems away from .ws to another TLD to keep thingns running. See: https://twitter.com/OhNoItsFusl/status/1350119705189748742?s=19 https://twitter.com/OhNoItsFusl/status/1350119705189748742?s...