Comments on: Hmm?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:03:28 +0000

Oh, yes, it took my brother two years to get dumka.com from a Ukrainian discussion group, who I think still uses dumka,org.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:29:54 +0000

my name is the Ukrainian word for political thought

that might explain it.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:51:13 +0000

This was automatic renewal, although I had to change the credit card information. I think the old registrar was bought out. NFS didn’t want to deal with .us, or I would have gone with them. Too bad there’s no .blog TLD.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:39:33 +0000

“as a different group contacted me on the renewal.” – Bryan

As you probably know, the fact that a domain is up for renewal is public knowledge, and I receive lots of snail-mail which is meant to look like a domain “renewal” but which is really just advertising. I often have to steer clients clear of similar snail-mail. But I’m sure you recognize such fakery.

My domain registrar is one of the ICANN-accredited registrars. They are not cheap, but I am unwilling to forgo one of their features: automated renewal. As long as I keep the same credit card number, the domains are renewed in a timely fashion each year, with the appropriate hit to my card. It worked last year for the YDD’s domain; let’s hope it works again next month. (My business domain is good through 2011; I’m not worried about it yet.)

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:30:35 +0000

The .us is not exactly a popular TLD, which is why it was available, and my name is the Ukrainian word for political thought, so it was a while before I could find anything. I think my original registrar went belly up or was bought out, as a different group contacted me on the renewal.

To avoid using up an IP address, the site is virtual at the end, so there’s an extra delay built in, but it was working fine until a few weeks ago, and then this started. Something changed, but no one seems to know what or where,

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:48:29 +0000

Another problem is that J.GTLD.BIZ does not seem to exist but is returned as the first authority record for .US.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:45:05 +0000

You have a 600 second TTL on your DNS records, that means the downline nameservers will only cache information they obtain for ten minutes and then discard it. This requires a fresh lookup if your site is again accessed, and if your nameservers are a little bit slow in responding that can cause a timeout and resolution failure until the downline nameservers catch up.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:04:42 +0000

Back in the day, the whole concept and the reason it was funded by DARPA was to have a system that routed around problems. That doesn’t seem to be working. These guys are noting the problems that shouldn’t exist.

I noticed on the map that one of the areas of problems is around Orlando, which is where the Sprint/Embarq node is located. I was often detected as coming from a suburb of Orlando by the early mapping programs.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:51:40 +0000

I just read the article… wow. I had no idea, intellectually at least, that the internet is so much less reliable than the telephone network. In the old days, one could shrug and say it was new, and that much was being attempted for the technology in use. Now, that answer is rather unsatisfying. Thanks for posting this.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:50:50 +0000

Well, that’s odd, because it has been behaving rather well for me this evening. If it doesn’t work on the first retry, I hit reload, which normally wakes things up.

Now that you mention it, Florida Progressive Coalition is also a .us, so it is just me.

I’m going to have to check to see if there are any other .us at NFS to see if the problem is there.