The ghost domain problem in DNS, and what we're doing about it

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I wrote a piece over on the Oh Dear blog about a failure mode that most uptime monitoring gets wrong: a domain gets pulled from its registry’s zone, but its authoritative nameservers keep answering, and cached resolvers happily serve the stale delegation for days. Your monitoring says green. The domain is gone.

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