Comment by bscanlan

4 years ago

It looks like some sort of dispute or contractual issue between Notion and and the .so registry, or a complete messup by the registry.

From a whois of notion.so:

Updated Date: 2021-02-12T12:54:35.982Z

Creation Date: 2015-03-31T00:00:00.0Z

Registry Expiry Date: 2021-03-31T00:00:00.0Z

Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2021-03-31T00:00:00.0Z

Domain Status: clientHold https://icann.org/epp#clientHold

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yawnxyz  4 years ago

I don't understand why they're using the Somalian TLD when they also own .com

How reliable are these other TLDs like emerging country TLDs like .ly (Libya), .co (Colombia) or .so (Somalia)? Could you just get shut down overnight?

  • bombcar  4 years ago

    Any domain is entirely at the mercy of the registrar, and for country domains that's entirely in the country itself. It's amusing to me that some of the most "desirable" country domains are also coincidentally some of the most unstable countries.

    • tephra  4 years ago

      This is not entirely true. For example the .se domain is not controlled by the Swedish government but is administered by The Swedish Internet Foundation which is a private foundation (source I work there..). It is (now) regulated somewhat by law.

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  • cs-szazz  4 years ago

    If I understand correctly, the .so TLD is effectively a national resource of Somalia, and as such they have total control over it and could in fact shut it down if they wanted.

cs-szazz  4 years ago

> It is an uncommon status that is usually enacted during legal disputes, non-payment, or when your domain is subject to deletion.

Serious question, if this is an extended legal dispute or the domain is actually subject to deletion, that would be hugely damaging to the Notion brand right?

I ask because I can't think of another company that's had a similar issue lately, so I find the domain dispute an interesting issue that we rarely see get to this stage.

alberth  4 years ago

I never understood why notion continued to use notion.so when they own notion.com and you don’t have to worry about countries (ccTLD) doing things like this.

  • arnvald  4 years ago

    I guess it's been somewhere in their backlog with "impact: medium, urgency: low" for ages, so it never got to the top of the list and never got done.

    I'm also quite sure it's got updated to "urgency: high" today