• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Domain Industry & Internet News

Domain Industry & Internet News

Domain Name Industry News

  • Home
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submit News
  • Comment Policy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Advertise Hosting & Domain Industry Jobs
You are here: Home / Eurid / EU Registry Suffers Serious Outage

EU Registry Suffers Serious Outage

November 16, 2010 by Michele Neylon

Eurid, the operator of the .eu registry, has suffered a serious outage.

According to official communications from the registry the systems were offline from last night until earlier today (though no official communication about the servers coming back online has been made)

How long was the registry offline?

By the looks of things it could be anything up to 12 hours, though I suspect more information on the outage will be forthcoming later.

Existing domain names were not impacted and DNS resolution continued as normal. However new registrations and updates were blocked.

UPDATE 1413

Eurid have provided more detail about the issue in an email to registrars.
“Yesterday evening’s registration system break down was caused by a massive memory bank failure in one of the two nodes that make up the .eu main database system. As a result, the operating system marked one third of all the available memory as non-operational.
 
Initial investigations indicate that the database system did not handle the memory bank failure in an optimal way. The database cluster was desynchronised and consequently stopped working.
 
In the meantime, the node with the failing memory has been deactivated and the registration system recovered to a point where no data has been lost.
 “

Enhanced by Zemanta

Filed Under: Eurid Tagged With: Domain name, Domain name registrar, Eurid, europe, Generic top-level domain, icann, registry, Top-level domain

About Michele Neylon

Michele is founder and managing director of Irish domain registrar and hosting company Blacknight. Michele has been deeply involved in domain and internet policy discussions for more than a decade.
He also co-hosts the Technology.ie podcast.

Primary Sidebar

Recent Articles

ICANN’s Cancún Meeting Was Almost Normal

Middle East DNS Forum to be Held in Istanbul

Gandi Merges with TWS to Form “Your.Online”

Anguilla Offline due to Fibre Issue

IGF 2023 to be Held in Kyoto, Japan

Recent Comments

  • ICANN Gets First Female CEO on Centralnic Head Honcho Announces Immediate Retirement
  • Kieren McCarthy Elected to Nominet Board on Nominet Election Candidates 2022 Finally Announced
  • Michele Neylon on Nominet Taking RDAP Out of Beta
  • Gavin Brown on Nominet Taking RDAP Out of Beta
  • ICANN Heading to Hamburg (ICANN78) and Los Angeles (GDD) Plus Training For African Registries - Goldstein Report on ICANN Announces GDD Summit Dates & Location

Categories

Blogroll

  • Alex Bligh
  • Circle ID
  • Domain Incite
  • Domain Name News
  • Domain Name Wire
  • Jason Thompson

Blogs

  • Domain Gang
  • Stéphane Bortzmeyer

Archives

Recent Comments

  • ICANN Gets First Female CEO on Centralnic Head Honcho Announces Immediate Retirement
  • Kieren McCarthy Elected to Nominet Board on Nominet Election Candidates 2022 Finally Announced
  • Michele Neylon on Nominet Taking RDAP Out of Beta
  • Gavin Brown on Nominet Taking RDAP Out of Beta
  • ICANN Heading to Hamburg (ICANN78) and Los Angeles (GDD) Plus Training For African Registries - Goldstein Report on ICANN Announces GDD Summit Dates & Location

Categories

Blogroll

  • Alex Bligh
  • Circle ID
  • Domain Incite
  • Domain Name News
  • Domain Name Wire
  • Jason Thompson
  • Nigel Roberts

Blogs

  • Domain Gang
  • Stéphane Bortzmeyer

Copyright © 2023 InternetNews.me