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Oh I bet the registrar didn't pay the annual fee and that .sm suspended the domain as a result.

Context, this would be the third time I've heard of this, I was the second time I heard of this happening to .sm domains and it was via Gandi screwing it up. The first was actually Purism.

https://puri.sm/posts/the-great-purism-dns-outage-of-2018/

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/386644/

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Everyone wants a cute domain but there are good reasons to go with .com or with your country's national domain extension.

Is the problem here with the TLD or the domain registrar?

Probably both. lesser TLDs probably don't have the volume and money to support more automated and less error prone systems

True, I wanted to register crowdstrike.sucks only to realize it’s owned by some PR firm crowd strike keeps on retainer.

They missed https://clownstrike.lol, though.

That entire TLD was a racket

I think the cute names are more reliable than many of the small countries. In this case, .sm is a country TLD. I would bet .sucks and .rocks are better funded.

And here's that first link in archive form, because puri.sm is suspended: https://web.archive.org/web/20240521012506/https://puri.sm/p...

TLDR: Last time this happened, it was that their registrar forgot to pay the San Marino (.sm) registry.

Hilariously, their registrar's "sm specialist" was in California - but the San Marino registry's office hours are from midnight California time to 9am California Time, so the registry's "sm specialist" was incapable of contacting the registry :D

The blog post talks about DNS glue records, but are they really relevant to the issue if the domain is suspended? A suspended domain is a suspended domain, regardless of whether it's using vanity nameservers.

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