DOT.tk – what's up

2 points by djengineerllc 11 years ago | 4 comments

http://dot.tk

So is there something wrong with dot.tk? I temporarily register free domains with them for test projects and it looks like their site is hosed for me. I can't get to any .tk domains.

Anyone else seeing this? I checked isitup.org and they show it up. I checked tools.pingdom.com and there was no ping. I checked mxtoolbox.com and it showed that they didn't have any ns records.

djengineerllc 11 years ago |

Ok, I can get to it from a proxy location of the Netherlands, but not from the US or Germany.

So now isitup.org shows dot.tk up at an ip of 213.206.98.165. It shows www.dot.tk as being down.

david_shaw 11 years ago | |

Works for me (California, US)

djengineerllc 11 years ago | | |

Thanks david! I did a tracert on their IP of 213.206.98.165 and I get out of our AT&T firewall, we get to something that is telia.net, then to atom86.net, then we get to 213.133.37.246 and then it times out.

Looks like their IP block is in the Netherlands when I check whois w/ ripe.net (https://apps.db.ripe.net/search/query.html).

The ip block for dot.tk is 213.206.98.160 - 213.206.98.175.

When I check the IP of where the tracert stops at IS Core Network in the Netherlands.

Maybe there is a certain router that is down in which I can't hop to.

Looks like (IS Core Network in the Netherlands) is cloud hosting.

I tweeted the cloud hosting company with the issue and info.

IsItUp is now showing www.dot.tk (54.230.206.33) and dot.tk both as being up. I still can't get to it yet.

Looks like a lot traffic over there: http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/dataviz1.html, but couldn't really see anything causing my issue yet.

Verified that someone else out there on Twitter has the same issue. Yeah, I'm not crazy! :P

And this is just cool: http://cybermap.kaspersky.com/