the warning for future tech founders is clear: Be careful when picking your top-level domain. Physical history is never as separate from our digital future as we like to think.
Kinda ironic this is published to a website with a .to ccTLD for the Kingdom of Tonga.
My former company had a .bb domain for internal services because it rhymed with the name. We had constant outages whenever a storm was hitting Barbados…
Interesting, that’s not something I ever thought about. I just looked up the nameservers for .bb:
;; ANSWER SECTION:
bb. 86400 IN NS ns5.nic.bb.
bb. 86400 IN NS ns3.nic.bb.
bb. 86400 IN NS ns2.nic.bb.
bb. 86400 IN NS ns1.nic.bb.
bb. 86400 IN NS ns4.nic.bb.
bb. 86400 IN NS ns6.nic.bb.
It seems like ns1.nic.bb doesn’t resolve, and for 2-6, they’re all in either 64.68.192.0/20 or 64.119.192.0/20, so it does look like a small concentration in root nameservers which could be unavailable in a storm.
Kinda ironic this is published to a website with a
.toccTLD for the Kingdom of Tonga.My former company had a .bb domain for internal services because it rhymed with the name. We had constant outages whenever a storm was hitting Barbados…
Interesting, that’s not something I ever thought about. I just looked up the nameservers for
.bb:;; ANSWER SECTION: bb. 86400 IN NS ns5.nic.bb. bb. 86400 IN NS ns3.nic.bb. bb. 86400 IN NS ns2.nic.bb. bb. 86400 IN NS ns1.nic.bb. bb. 86400 IN NS ns4.nic.bb. bb. 86400 IN NS ns6.nic.bb.It seems like
ns1.nic.bbdoesn’t resolve, and for 2-6, they’re all in either64.68.192.0/20or64.119.192.0/20, so it does look like a small concentration in root nameservers which could be unavailable in a storm.Some times someone’s clever joke can have unforeseen consequences. There must be a razor for that. Or at least a xkcd comic.