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[Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net>]

I was looking through the lists and there quite a few Tier1 servers 
which have gone dark.  This likely means their associated TLDs are also 
no longer operational (although the records are still being served from 
other servers).

ns3.opennic.glue    (neo)    Disabled in 2019
ns11.opennic.glue    (o)    Last responded April 2024
ns12.opennic.glue    (cyb)    Last responded June 2020
ns13.opennic.glue    (epic)    Last responded October 2023
ns14.opennic.glue    (chan)    Online but no longer serving Opennic data 
(last pass was Jun 2024)

Additionally NS5 and NS9 are unresponsive, but do not serve any TLDs 
(possibly should be removed then?)

I have also heard that the admin of .null/.oz has not been responding to 
requests for new TLDs even though their server is still operational.

Is anyone still trying to use domains under any of these TLDs?  Are 
there enough people watching the mailing list to consider taking a vote 
on shutting down and removing these servers from our info?

Unfortunately what this means is that other than .fur on NS4/NS8, .bbs 
on NS6,  and the various TLDs I am running on NS2, everything else is 
dead.  For some reason we are also still peering NewNations domains even 
though the last I heard their website had been massively hacked and they 
were unresponsive.  I know there's a lot of things that need cleaned up 
around here, but I feel like the dns entries should at least be current?