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Comment by m463 | Hacker News Reader

yes, doesn't respond.

  Domain Name: puri.sm
  Registration date: 05/05/2014
  Status: Suspended

  Owner:
  Purism SPC

...

  DNS Servers:
  ns1.puri.sm
  ns2.puri.sm
  ns3.puri.sm

hmm... and DNS servers are in the domain

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That isn't outrageous however I totally understand why it rubs you the wrong way.

I was also baffled by that aspect of DNS before. During my first internship, my mentor who was impressed with my knowledge in general asked me if I had anything to ask. I told him there is something that doesn't make any sense to me at all about DNS. I asked him exactly that situation, and we talked about glue records and it all clicked. I think you could also bootstrap with things in the cache if you're careful since it is a distributed system.

https://www.ibm.com/blog/understanding-glue-records-and-dedi...

I think they were talking about the “Status: Suspended” part more than the NS records.

I was also wondering about the NS records.

Lots of other domains generally have nameservers that are outside the domain, or at least a mix of in/outside the domain. In this case it looks like it could be a best practice to do this.

While having nameservers in multiple TLD:s is a good idea, it does not help against a domain being suspended outright.

Check the last line with "hmmm".

I swear that wasn’t there when I replied!

(I’m sure it actually was and I just missed it.)

What was the tool used to generate this output?

That looks like whois, available on most Unix versions.

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