DNS resolving problems of the uber.space zone Wednesday 24th September 2025 14:56:00

We are currently experiencing DNS resolving problems of the uber.space zone. There's no problem with our DNS servers: They happily serve the uber.space zone. The problem seems to lie within the .space registry that no longer seems to serve a delegation to our nameservers. The registration of the uber.space domain is fine though, the domain is still listed with our domain registrar and Whois records show zero updates and a correct delegation. However the [abef].nic.space nameservers responsible for delegating the zone to our nameservers don't provide records any more.

We have receive similar reports from other .space domain owners, using registrations through other registrars, so we have good reason to believe that this is indeed a bigger problem of the .space registry in general, not specifically with our uber.space domain. We will keep you updated.

It seems like the .space TLD registry has fixed something on their side - the delegation of the uber.space zone to our nameservers is back:

$ dig +noall +authority @a.nic.space. uber.space. ns
uber.space.             3600    IN      NS      ns1.jonaspasche.com.
uber.space.             3600    IN      NS      ns2.jonaspasche.com.
uber.space.             3600    IN      NS      ns3.jonaspasche.com.

$ dig +noall +authority @e.nic.space. uber.space. ns
uber.space.             3600    IN      NS      ns1.jonaspasche.com.
uber.space.             3600    IN      NS      ns2.jonaspasche.com.
uber.space.             3600    IN      NS      ns3.jonaspasche.com.

The b and f .space TLD nameservers still give timeouts, but that might be the aftermath of excessive requests due to expired caches. We can indeed confirm that uber.space subdomains start becoming available again.

We're still waiting for some official confirmation/post-mortem of the .space TLD registry about what happened here.

Posted 1 week ago by :username

Seems indeed to be a problem with the .space zone in general, others are reporting similar problems:

  • https://x.com/atticoos/status/1970823253091631132
  • https://x.com/nikro_md/status/1970827722219020408
  • https://x.com/marcelritter_/status/1970837156173119735
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45359627
Posted 1 week ago by :username