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The British government is transferring sovereignty of an island in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius next week, potentially impacting the existence of the .io domain. (every.to)
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[-] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 71 points 1 month ago

the warning for future tech founders is clear: Be careful when picking your top-level domain. Physical history is never as separate from our digital future as we like to think.

Kinda ironic this is published to a website with a .to ccTLD for the Kingdom of Tonga.

[-] lostinfog@reddthat.com 9 points 1 month ago

My former company had a .bb domain for internal services because it rhymed with the name. We had constant outages whenever a storm was hitting Barbados…

[-] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Interesting, that's not something I ever thought about. I just looked up the nameservers for .bb:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
bb.			86400	IN	NS	ns5.nic.bb.
bb.			86400	IN	NS	ns3.nic.bb.
bb.			86400	IN	NS	ns2.nic.bb.
bb.			86400	IN	NS	ns1.nic.bb.
bb.			86400	IN	NS	ns4.nic.bb.
bb.			86400	IN	NS	ns6.nic.bb.

It seems like ns1.nic.bb doesn't resolve, and for 2-6, they're all in either 64.68.192.0/20 or 64.119.192.0/20, so it does look like a small concentration in root nameservers which could be unavailable in a storm.

[-] lostinfog@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago

Some times someone’s clever joke can have unforeseen consequences. There must be a razor for that. Or at least a xkcd comic.

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