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.
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> 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.
Tonic.to appears to be the authorized domain registrar. Register.to appears to have been a reseller.
I searched the Internet for any Representative, to no avail.
Thank you, shagie, your link did the trick.
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-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).
Edit: In contact with Tonic.to. They are looking into it.