[outages] Outage ns1-ns5.he.net, clientHold in WHOIS for he.net

[Jay Ashworth]

Hopefully somebody who actually works at Hurricane Electric will chime in fairly promptly, and let us restrain comment on this list to that actual thread. 

Any further commentary that does not involve an he employee should move over to -discuss.

On July 4, 2024 2:34:59 PM EDT, "Michael B. Williams via Outages" <outages at outages.org> wrote:
>I’m seeing the same issues.
>
>For those who don’t know the clientHold status code tells a domain's
>registry to not activate a domain in the DNS and as a consequence, it will
>not resolve. It is an uncommon status that is usually enacted during legal
>disputes, non-payment, or when a domain is subject to deletion.
>Given the expiry of this domain is 2033 something else is going on… anyone
>have a contact at HE who could shead some light on this situation?
>
>Sent from Gmail Mobile
>
>
>On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 04:28 Tom Hek via Outages <outages at outages.org>
>wrote:
>
>> Hello Outages,
>>
>> Seeing a bunch of resolution failures on our resolvers, after diagnosis I
>> tracked it down to HE.net being in clientHold:
>>
>>    Domain Name: HE.NET
>>    Registry Domain ID: 486609_DOMAIN_NET-VRSN
>>    Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.networksolutions.com
>>    Registrar URL: http://networksolutions.com
>>    Updated Date: 2024-07-04T15:06:46Z
>>    Creation Date: 1995-07-31T04:00:00Z
>>    Registry Expiry Date: 2033-07-30T04:00:00Z
>>    Registrar: Network Solutions, LLC
>>    Registrar IANA ID: 2
>>    Registrar Abuse Contact Email: domain.operations at web.com
>>    Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.8777228662
>>    Domain Status: clientHold https://icann.org/epp#clientHold
>>    Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited
>> https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
>>    Name Server: NS1.HE.NET
>>    Name Server: NS2.HE.NET
>>    Name Server: NS3.HE.NET
>>    Name Server: NS4.HE.NET
>>    Name Server: NS5.HE.NET
>>    DNSSEC: unsigned
>>    URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form:
>> https://www.icann.org/wicf/
>> >>> Last update of whois database: 2024-07-04T18:19:09Z <<<
>>
>> ns1-5.he.net stopped resolving due to this as HE.net disappeared from the
>> .net zone, so all domains that use them as a authoritative DNS might stop
>> resolving soon as well.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Tom Hek
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