forwarded domain no longer working?

[davdaddy]

Hello, I hope someone can help me. I've had a freebie domain that I use to forward to my main domain and a couple of weeks ago it just upped and quit working? I'm not sure that it was exactly at the same time when I upgraded my account to the $12 yearly deal but if not, it was really close.

Basically, what I have always done and had worked great right up until now was:
https://opensourcesetups.x10.mx is the domain I have my site at.
https://opensetups.ml used to forward there no problem, but no longer does.

I've tried about everything I can think of including:

• Using the registrar's ns servers and pointing A records to the ip of my x10 site "198.91.81.14".
• Using a cname with my registrar pointing to x14.x10hosting.com then using the x10 NS records: "ns1.x10hosting.com, ns2.x10hosting.com" along with the A records pointing to the ip of my site "198.91.81.14" from here.
• Originally, I had the x10 nameservers plugged in with my registrar "ns1.x10hosting.com, ns2.x10hosting.com" and then A records and a redirect setup here at x10. That worked perfectly for a long time before it didn't?

I've tried disabling SSL, forcing SSL, I flush my dns constantly on my end and I installed an extension the lets me clear the browsers cache with the click of a button.

The only other change I made was that I briefly installed "Matomo" from Softaculous in a subdirectory to try it out. That has been uninstalled and gone for a while now, but I do still have a 2nd SQL database still hanging around from it if that could be it?

I don't know what else to try at this point I'm completely stumped?

 

[Anna]

A lookup on that .ml domain gives me:
"Whois Record Not Available
This domain is not registered."
You may need to check with the registrar what is going on with that domain, because in a state where it shows as unregistered to the world it will not work.

 

[mrburnsx]

.ml domains no longer work as the .ml contract with Freenom had expired leading to those domains being reclaimed.

 

[davdaddy]

.ml domains no longer work as the .ml contract with Freenom had expired leading to those domains being reclaimed.

Ah, okay. That would explain it. Good thing I didn't use that domain for my site like I thought about! Trying to sweet talk someone from the Mali government into giving me my domain back doesn't sound like my idea of a good time.

I think I remember hearing about Facebook going after Freenom because they were pretending to care about spam or hoping everyone would forget how their platform has undermined democracy and enabled at least 4 genocides so far.

Just when you think it isn't possible to dislike a company anymore, they go and take it as a challenge.

Thank both of you for the help, I went and bought a ".win" domain to forward. Is there some way I can mark this solved or something? Just in case someone else runs into this issue.