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?!
weird frog found in creek won't stop croaking
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in reply to @iliana's post:
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) :
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
Neither https://datacom.mn/home/aboutus.php nor the English language https://www.domain.mn/about_us.php offers any information on corporate ownership or governance
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"
I'm confused. https://www.house.mn.gov/ is the URL I find for the House. I do see the senate.mn thing, and I am concerned by it.
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.
in reply to @iliana's post:
Since I don't know that one I looked it up. Mongolia? Instead of just using mn.gov? I can't even
Having seen some .... thoroughly depressing geographical ignorance and arrogance before, I would not be surprised if the summarised answer is "other countries exist?"
the state abbreviations are reserved under .us for a reason y'all...
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