Hi. Speaking from Quad9’s board, rather than the operations side, resources are 
scarce and demand is enormous. We put in negative trust anchors where safe and 
necessary to keep things working for actual users, because if we don’t, we get 
drowned by support calls. And, like any donation-funded open project, donors 
are expecting us to use the resources they’ve given us to protect people, not 
to subsidize other people’s science projects. Your experiment is not 
distributing malware through .GOV or .MIL, therefore you have no reasonable 
expectation that we, our donors, and our users should absorb the externalized 
costs of your experiment. 

There, your experiment was a success: you learned something, just not what you 
were expecting to learn. 

But please think twice before putting an experiment in a production domain. 
This is exactly the sort of reason people normally register independent domains 
for beacons.
    
                -Bill


> On Feb 28, 2021, at 09:52, Florian Weimer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> * Winfried Angele:
> 
>> I guess they've turned off validation for irs.gov because of a
>> former failure.
> 
> I think it goes beyond that.  It extends to GOV and MIL as a whole, it
> seems.
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