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[Kusoneko <kusoneko AT kusoneko.moe>]

Aug 15, 2025 20:02:13 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?
> 
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OpenNIC is a thing I've found very interesting and that I support, in 
concept. Decentralizing as much of the Internet is a laudable goal, however 
it seems to me that much of the OpenNIC TLD's and tier 1 servers have been 
dead for a relatively long time and should be either moved so a different 
operator hosts them or consolidated under one of the few still active (as 
annoying as that is to my decentralization beliefs), as it's objectively 
better for it to be available and more centralized than dead and 
decentralized. Besides, the project in itself feels like it's halfway in the 
grave and needs people to start caring about it again. E.g.: I've been 
subscribed to this list for the past few years and have seen about 3 threads, 
and out of those only 1 received any activity. Something definitely should be 
done but at this point I'm not sure what or even who is even still operating 
or caring at all about this project.