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What happens when a Domain Registar is down for months with no end in sight?
The registrar is Register.To -
Website has been showing same message for months.
Twitter account is silent since January.
What options do I have?
I would love to login and transfer my domains, but I am unable to login. Since page is completely down.
The TLD belong to the Republic of Tonga.
This is unprecedented. And I'm at a lost.
Do domains expire on said Registar regardless?
I have a very Profitable SaaS on a .To domain.
If it goes down , I'm looking at $10k/day in loss revenue.
- shagie 3y agoContact the Tonga Network Information Center ( https://www.tonic.to https://www.tonic.to ). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.to#cite_ref-6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.to#cite_ref-6 > The .to registry allows the creation of emoji domain names. A former .to registrar, Register.TO, did support the search and registration of .to emoji domain names. Register.to is no longer an authorized registrar for .TO domain names when making a transaction. The death of its owner in early February 2023 was stated by the NIC of Tonga according to an online review.
- blacksqr 3y agoSounds like someone ought to step up and pitch themselves as the new domain registrar for Tonga.
- shagie 3y agohttps://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/to.html https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/to.html Tonic.to appears to be the authorized domain registrar. Register.to appears to have been a reseller.
- usernamebias 3y agoDoes this mean Tonic has the ability to access Domains? Or that's not how it works.
- usernamebias 3y agoEdit: I contacted Tonic and they got this resolved. I' so relieved. I searched the Internet for any Representative, to no avail. Thank you, shagie, your link did the trick.
- shagie 3y agoIn some later searching... the name in IANA and that it was in Burlingame piqued my interest - Eric Gullichsen is a rather distinctive name. Some of the history of the domain can be read at Domain Names, Tonga and Two Guys Named Eric - https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-09-fi-1560-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-09-fi-1560-s... (and amusing to me the email address of the reporter was @best.com - and I remember that ISP from my days out there too).
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- usernamebias 3y agoOh dear. Edit: In contact with Tonic.to. They are looking into it.