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[Renard Bleu <dnsadmin123456 AT proton.me>]

Hello,

I would like to setup a new additional Tier 1 server, if needed.

Thanks.


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On Friday, August 15th, 2025 at 20:02, Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net> 
wrote:

> 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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