[dns-operations] Emoji "Female" symbol fails to resolve at Google's 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4

[Warren Kumari]

Because the DNSSEC for that domain is broken....
http://dnsviz.net/d/xn--e5h.com/dnssec/

The other resolvers that you tried presumably do not validate....

Working as intended, will not fix :-),
W

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 9:41 AM, James Stevens <James.Stevens at jrcs.co.uk> wrote:
> Although the "Female" symbol (U+2640 ♀) is not IDNA2008 compliant, it had
> been sold as a dot-COM some time ago - along with a few other "emoji"
> dot-COM domains.
>
> It used to work fine at Google's resolver service, and works fine at other
> resolvers I tried, but Google now immediately returns "status: SERVFAIL"
>
> Anybody know why Google now returns "status: SERVFAIL" for ♀.com
> (xn--e5h.com), but still works fine for ☮.com (xn--v4h.com)
>
>
> The NS for xn--e5h.com are ...
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> xn--e5h.com.            172800  IN      NS      ns75.domaincontrol.com.
> xn--e5h.com.            172800  IN      NS      ns76.domaincontrol.com.
>
> and they are still working fine.
>
>
>
>
> James
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