Thanks for fixing the problem, Victor! I hope ICANN also put in place checks to reject empty zone files in the future and automated internal alerting to conditions such as these, so that outage notification doesn't have to happen via this mailing list. Regards, Joe On 2025-07-08 04:03, Victor Figueroa Vazquez via gtld-tech wrote:
You should now be able to see the zone file for today (7 July) as expected. Please let us know if you encounter any issues accessing it.
Best,
Victor ICANN
On 7/7/25, 8:17 AM, "Victor Figueroa Vazquez via gtld-tech" <gtld-tech@icann.org <mailto:gtld-tech@icann.org>> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
We’re looking into the issue with the .top zone file and I’ll keep you posted.
Best,
Victor ICANN
On 7/7/25, 6:12 AM, "Jan Schaumann via gtld-tech" <gtld-tech@icann.org <mailto:gtld-tech@icann.org> <mailto:gtld-tech@icann.org <mailto:gtld-tech@icann.org>>> wrote:
FWIW, I've opened a support request with ICANN for this and have reached out to the TLD operator as well. I'll share any information that comes out of it here.
Joe Wein via gtld-tech <gtld-tech@icann.org <mailto:gtld-tech@icann.org> <mailto:gtld-tech@icann.org <mailto:gtld-tech@icann.org>>> wrote:
Hello ICANN,
The downloaded zone file for .top has been empty now for 4 days in a row. On the last successful download it was the 6th largest zone file.
The top.txt.gz file is 20 bytes. A zone file retrieved from the registrar that is empty should never be passed on to the API for downloads. This process is lacking the most elementary checks and alerts.
Joe Wein
On 2025-07-06 01:14, Viktor Dukhovni via gtld-tech wrote:
On Sat, Jul 05, 2025 at 11:56:05AM -0400, Jan Schaumann via gtld-tech wrote:
Viktor Dukhovni via gtld-tech <gtld-tech@icann.org <mailto:gtld-tech@icann.org> <mailto:gtld-tech@icann.org <mailto:gtld-tech@icann.org>>> wrote:
Perhaps surprisingly, that's not what I see, my recent counts of total and signed delegations seen in the downloaded ".top" TLD zone are: Same here. I have a count as of 2025-07-03, but yesterday's and today's .top zonefile as fetched from CZDS is indeed empty. It seems I overlooked a safety net I have in place, my code skips (not silently, but I have to check the logs) zones files that don't start and end with identical SOA records. So *empty* .top zone data leaves the previous day's data in place.
I did indeed run into an empty zone file yesterday, which was consequently ignored. The zone file is still empty today.
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