Cross-posted from “Itch.io games site taken down” by @moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com in !technology@lemmy.world
Bluesky Post (this was also posted on twitter)
I was hoping to find a statement from the aggressor, but it seems to be too early.
Cross-posted from “Itch.io games site taken down” by @moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com in !technology@lemmy.world
Bluesky Post (this was also posted on twitter)
I was hoping to find a statement from the aggressor, but it seems to be too early.
It wasn’t a great domain to own anyway:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220128141550/https://gigaom.com/2014/06/30/the-dark-side-of-io-how-the-u-k-is-making-web-domain-profits-from-a-shady-cold-war-land-deal/
to top it off, the problem was a “serverHold” which as I understand can only be initiated by the top-level domain registrar, so the only way to make sure it doesn’t happen again is not to use a .io domain
I think you mean registry; they’re the sole entity responsible for managing the domain. Registrars are just the ones selling them. Technically speaking server status codes are supposed to be set by the registry, but I imagine they have some system in place to let registrars set certain status codes automatically.