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.org Registry Offline - Not

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bit-an-oops dept.

einer writes "According to the The Register, the registry containing all of the .org tld information has fallen off the planet. The article is light on details, and doesn't list any potential consequences. " It looks like it's the server that maintains the records for who owns what .org domain - and a big "I Told You So" for Verisign. And of course, now it seems to be working just fine. Good work, PIR.

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  1. Don't hit OSS by thosss · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I just hope that MS and others don't hit up OSS for this; the .org registry was the first to run a non Oracle\MS SQL\DB2 database (it runs/ran Postgre). I don't want Postgre to be the underlying problem in this because it could easily destroy their reputation.

  2. The day .org died - or anyone want slashdot.org? by sparkes · · Score: 5, Interesting

    bags I get to name to problem;-)

    not quite as bad as the day the internet died as all it means in real terms is a few people will try to buy domain names that arn't available.

    anyone want to buy slashdot.org?

    http://www.domaincity.co.uk/cgi-bin/whois.pl?typ e= org&command=slashdot

    it seems to be for sale, or maybe not

    sparkes

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  3. Re:whois still working by Christopher+B.+Brown · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Strange...

    I never got paged about it, and I certainly would have had things gone down.

    It seems more plausible that the problem stems from an out-of-date version of whois.

    Version 4.6.2 (released in March) introduced a "patch" redirecting .ORG requests to whois.publicinterestregistry.net ; I'd suggest you check version numbers. Chances are that you're running something reasonably new.

    It's plausible that VGRS might have been forwarding requests over to PIR, and shut that capability off this weekend, thereby causing "some inconvenience" to those using out-of-date whois clients.

    Taking a look at the posts that led to the Register article, it appears that they headed down a garden path rather like this:

    • "We're having a problem; perhaps it's one of several things" to
    • "Now, we're publishing an article, with the wildest conspiracy theory we can imagine!", namely
      The registry for all .org domains appears to have collapsed - meaning that all the details of who owns any .org domain are unobtainable.

    Alternatively, perhaps CRSNIC, the putative point of failure, is having a problem?

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