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I made the mistake of buying a .co.de domain and putting my professional email on it. One time it was down for a couple of days, no .co.de domains would resolv

I made the mistake of buying a .co.de domain and putting my professional email on it. One time it was down for a couple of days, no .co.de domains would resolve and I couldn't get my emails, so I took it upon myself to find out who to contact and actually got them to fix it. Now they've improved and my email is down due to DNS issues only a few hours every quarter! Reliability is really bad for rare gLTD's, I would say don't even bother. Keep important systems on .com and friends.

foepys 5y ago
Aren't a lot of ccTLDs and most new gTLDs nowadays hosted by a few big DNS providers? When .io was found to be vulnerable to a takeover attack a few years ago they switched to one of those providers. I don't know which, though.
Tepix 5y ago
.co.de is just a random 2-letter domain We only have .de as TLD in Germany and everything below it is anarchy.
zamadatix 5y ago
.co.de is just a standard SLD you could have owned and operated if you had registered it like any other domain first. A gTLD requires significant up front investment and review+approval from ICANN after demonstration you have the technical capacity to run it, as well as being an actual top level domain. Not that every gTLD is the pinnacle of reliability (see this post) but your experience with a generic SLD isn't indicative of anything in this case.