remove blogspot.mr and blogspot.td

[wdhdev]

blogspot.mr

I'm not sure where this was originally added in, possibly added pre-GitHub.

Pretty simple reason for removal; the domain name is expired.

When attempting to lookup the domain via WHOIS, the server returns:

$ whois blogspot.mr
Server can't process your request at the moment.

And to clarify, I don't believe this is a server issue as looking up, for example, nic.mr works perfectly fine and returns the WHOIS data.

When attempting to lookup NS records the server returns NXDOMAIN.

blogspot.td

Basically the same issue as blogspot.mr, I don't believe it is registered anymore, however I cannot completely confirm this as attempting a WHOIS lookup does not work.

When attempting to dig the NS records, SERVFAIL is returned. I suspect the TLD operator is having issues, however it does seem to be a very small, mostly unused TLD, as according to Wikipedia there are only 876 domains registered as of July 22, 2017.

[groundcat]

If the domain has expired, then I guess it's safe to remove it, but I'm a little unsure since the WHOIS data for .mr and .td is unavailable. Personally I believe a more efficient approach might be to ask Google for confirmation on whether they need this entire block of ccTLD Blogspot domains, rather than having volunteers check each entry individually—it's a huge block. I selected some samples and ran a quick check

• samples_result.txt

and it appears that all the sampled ccTLD domains are redirecting (301/302) to blogname.blogspot.com domains, so it's likely they have decommissioned the use of ccTLD Blogspot domains altogether, with all redirects going to the main blogspot.com domain.

I think this is when a Google employee last responded regarding the Blogspot domains.

[wdhdev]

Yeah, I think it's possible they've decommissioned these ccTLDs. @simon-friedberger @dnsguru What do you guys think?

[simon-friedberger]

I asked about this here: #1947 (comment)
@svipul Is there somebody whom you could ping?

[wdhdev]

Some other reasons worth mentioning for removal:

• No websites are returned when searching site:blogspot.mr or site:blogspot.td on Google, suggesting the domain is not used at all.
• No SSLs were found for blogspot.mr: https://crt.sh/?q=blogspot.mr
• SSLs were found for blogspot.td, however they are all expired and none have been created since 2021-09-24: https://crt.sh/?q=blogspot.td

I think it would be safe to remove these in addition with other reasons mentioned in this PR.

[wdhdev]

@simon-friedberger I believe these are safe to remove as these 2 domains have expired, and as for the other Blogspot domains listed in the section it might be worth opening an issue and possibly emailing the email address Google has listed for contact.

[groundcat]

I tried to email Public Suffix Editors <public-suffix-editors@google.com> but it was bounced:

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[simon-friedberger]

@krgovind Do you have a suggestion who to reach out to?