Re: Coverage of the .to internet outage

["Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG" <nanog () nanog org>]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 10:21 AM Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com> wrote:

> If you're a small pacific island nation state with a limited budget, and a
> working submarine cable, maintaining a SCPC geostationary satellite service
> that might be $20,000 a month (on 36-60 month term) in transponder kHz may
> seem like a very large ongoing expense.

Redundancy seems like it could be covered by increasing the cost of a .to
domain.

DNS for .to domains seems to be working just fine, but whois lookups for
.to domains fail with a timeout.

-A