Maintenance error shuts down .se domain

An error made during routine maintenance on the .se domain last night shut down all 905,000 names on the ccTLD for a period of around 20 minutes.

Though the exact cause of the outage has yet to be determined, many believe it to be the result of a typo in the registry zone files.

As far as failures go, this one is fairly serious. While the downtime was only 20 minutes, all .se domains were affected. Sweden is lucky the problem was caught and fixed so quickly. When new gTLDs come online next year, expect to hear more stories like this.

Source | Domain Name News
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