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".
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.
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.
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.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 33.6 ms ] thread[1] https://handshake.org
http://www.darkscience.ws
Edit: See also this thread on CloudFlare: 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/
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.