So we resolved this by switching away from Cloudflare handling our DNS to revert it back to our domain service provider (Namecheap). This made our site available again.

Now we've switched it back to Cloudflare and still looks up.

So something in changing it seems to have jiggled some bits somewhere.

/ turn it on and off again / I guess

Yup, appears to be an turn off turn on fix. Very frustrating though for such a critical piece of infrastructure

Namecheap also reported it: https://www.namecheap.com/status-updates/issue-with-space-do...

Thanks - at least I’m not going mad.

indeed, I was just on their support prior to that getting posted. lol

update: my site is back online now.

@dang or anyone Can someone push this up since it’s becoming quite serious and I don’t know what to do.

Agreed, let's upvote this thread higher to get some eyes on this.

I contacted spaceship.com support, and they said there's a problem with this TLD.

Thanks for the info!

Doesn't work for me either right now. Google apps is also failing to resolve it.

Wonder why some are working. I am searching DDG with “site:.space”

Likely something at the root level went bananas.

https://www.iana.org/domains/root/servers

The .space zone seems to have gone from 973093 domains to 447730

Where did you get that number?

CentralNIC

https://support.centralnicreseller.com/hc/en-gb/articles/917...

Manually repropagate, I just added the NS records again (removed, saved, re-added) and it worked.

also did this, hasnt resolved yet.

My .space domains seem to work again

It seems to ping-pong back and forth. Our monitoring is basically spamming us with DNS down, DNS up every 5 minutes or so.

Down for us as well.

Email seems to be affected as well :(

Whois isn't even showing the domains and name servers. Not to mention DNS records. Its like the domains don't exist anymore.

Is there a “status page” for TLDs?

No idea. Never actually seen a failure like this in practise.

Looks like the zone file is back to normal size now.

It works now

nope, works for me (in EU)

Some domains are working but many are not. first hit on DDG: stuffin.space