i can't go to hell - i'm all out of vacation days. i watch space rocks and yell at computers for my day job. probably too old for any of this

 

i think i might be burned out on internet social. it's hard to keep doing it. it's hard to even maintain the amount of attention i'm already giving it

 

i am the cause of most of my own problems

 

furthermore, capitalism must be destroyed

 

birdsona: ?????

 

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iliana
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just learned that the two houses of the minnesota legislature use “house.mn” and “senate.mn” as their official domain names, including for email communication?

why in the fuck would you involve another country’s ccTLD in your government’s affairs?!


SomeEgrets
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anyway it'd be funny as hell if Mongolia's registrar just invalidated the registration and an entire state lost its internet presence


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In case anyone else was wondering if this was a .io situation (that is a nominally ccTLD operated as a private enterprise within the USA, since 2017?), seems like no ... well ... except ... maybe:

the NS on mn. resolves to 2 logical-groups of servers:

The first, ns{1,2,3,4}.magic.mn, (currently) resolve to addresses in ASNs 45237, 24320, 9484, 56301 - all of which (and their blocks) are assigned through APNIC to entities/sites in Mongolia (Magicnet LLC, Railcom - Commercial Center, Mobinet LLC, and The National Data Center respectively) and ~geoping dbs seem to support physical routing to Mongalia

But the second cluster, and the only SOA records I scared up (though I didn't berate the root servers), are all letter-number (or 2 hexit, but I suspect the former) subdomains of cctld.afilias-nst.info ; which on its face and by WHOIS are part of Afilias Limited, a subsidiary of Donuts, the same subsidiary that bought the holdings of Internet Computer Bureau (including the assignments and core infra of .io, .sh, and .tm) in 2017 before selling itself to Donuts Identity Digital in 2020

sooo ... it definitely seems like the Mongolians are at least in the loop (and whois is handled through a nic hosted in Ulaanbaatar), but de facto control seems still to rest in Bellevue, WA, USA for the time being. (A place rather equally not in Minnesota)

de jure authority is with https://datacom.mn/

Mongolian(-speaking) wikipedians offer us this both extremely detailed and not-detailed suspiciously autobiographical (at least as machine translated) history of the company (that seems suspiciously similar to the timeline presented on https://datacom.mn/home/aboutus.php) :

https://mn-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC_%D0%A5%D0%A5%D0%9A?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

It enthusiastically reports partnership agreements/programs with Google; it does not include any mentions of Affilias or Donuts Identity Digital

but it was last edited 2 years ago

Amusingly unhelpfully, with the second heading of the footer:

УДИРДЛАГЫН ТАЛБАР

which best as I can tell a human might translate as "Project Management" or "Customer Service", Google Translate interprets as "Board of Directors"

because the .mn.us hierarchy was deemed to be too "confusing", i guess?

Like, we remember when the Santa Fe city government was ci.santa-fe.nm.us and that makes sense. The library was lib.ci.santa-fe.nm.us, and that makes sense. Now we have santafenm.gov, which, i guess, but there was a hierarchy to the DNS before, where did it go

yeah, but (for good or ill on a global scale), .gov is admined by CISA, whereas .us is a product of GoDaddy (since Q2 2020; before that since '01, Nuestar which is now a subsidiary of TransUnion, but that happened after they sold .us, etc to GoDaddy) — an entity its not clear one should trust in the loop of government affairs any more than the Mongolia's DataCom, etc.

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