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Although expensive, they've always had good fame (and I even had a friend working from them years ago), but something "funny" was going on with their routers so
by tecleandor 2y ago
Although expensive, they've always had good fame (and I even had a friend working from them years ago), but something "funny" was going on with their routers some months ago...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40106336 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40106336
- mschuster91 2y agoYeah that's because they used .box as a custom TLD for decades and either didn't get the introduction of .box as a legitimate TLD or failed to secure fritz.box in time. Not the first time this has happened, and likely won't be the last either.
- _joel 2y ago.dev entered the chat
- ale42 2y agoCurrently the fritz.box domain seems to be owned by AVM (the makers of the FritzBox). Maybe it was just not existing and the local resolver on the box got confused? The domain was created in January and updated only a few days ago so things might actually have changed in the meantime...
- mschuster91 2y agoSome scammers front-ran the registration to run NFT bullshit, AVM eventually managed to pull the domain with ICANN URS [1]. [1] https://www.heise.de/news/Fritz-box-Domain-aus-dem-Verkehr-gezogen-9647776.html https://www.heise.de/news/Fritz-box-Domain-aus-dem-Verkehr-g...