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[Isa Smienk <isa AT woof.tech>]

Hi Anton,

Are you still up for taking over .chan? The servers will finally be shutdown 
in a month or so, although I'll make sure to make an image of the machines 
they won't be operational meaning .chan is running out of time. 

Anyone else who may want to take over?

Kind regards,
Isa

> On 22 Feb 2024, at 18:59, Isa Smienk <isa AT woof.tech> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> What do you mean by being the hosting company? Do you manage domain 
>> registrations and have the master authoritative server?
> 
> I've been responsible for hosting the VMs the domain registrations and 
> authoritative server are on. I think I may have had credentials to them at 
> some point, but I highly doubt anyone has logged into these machines in 
> years. 
> For what it's worth, I can give myself access to these machines to migrate 
> them, but I don't know much about their current state or how to do a 
> migration to someone else. 
> 
> I basically need someone who I can trust, give access to the machines so 
> they can migrate what's needed and from that point on will host this TLD. 
> The sooner I can get these machines migrated, the sooner I can discontinue 
> the hypervisor they're on. It's about the only VM remaining on said 
> machine. 
> 
> Let me know.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Isa
> 
>> On 14 Feb 2024, at 12:56, Anton Luka Šijanec <anton AT sijanec.eu> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Thu, 8 Feb 2024 22:18:50 +0100
>> Isa <isa AT woof.tech> wrote:
>>> For anyone else: What to do? Anyone willing to adopt this TLD if no
>>> one responds, or how to proceed with discontinuing it?
>> 
>> If no one else is willing to adopt it, I can host chan on my unrealiable
>> bind9 server at home and make a simple web API + UI for setting NS and 
>> DNSSEC records (without DNS hosting) for second level domains.
>> 
>> My ns1.sijanec.org is reachable over IPv4 and IPv6 with 350/100 Mbit/s.
>> 
>> But I need a month for this as I'd need to switch my DNS root from ICANN's 
>> to OpenNIC and set up DNSSEC for it correctly on my resolver. I had 
>> problems with DNSSEC on OpenNIC in the past, so I just switched back to 
>> ICANN's root, but this would be unacceptable if I wanted to host chan (for 
>> testing purposes it's nice to have an OpenNIC resolver at hand).
>> 
>>> I think I've been the hosting company behind the .chan TLD for 8+
>>> years now, but I actually have no idea if it's still being maintained
>>> by anyone.
>> 
>> What do you mean by being the hosting company? Do you manage domain 
>> registrations and have the master authoritative server?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Anton
>> 
>> 
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