Honestly the issue here isn't that they let the zone get stale. The root zone doesn't change that much. So a couple of TLDs had to hold off on making changes, w

Honestly the issue here isn't that they let the zone get stale. The root zone doesn't change that much. So a couple of TLDs had to hold off on making changes, who cares. The issue here is that they didn't notice until someone with a direct contact at Cogent emailed them to tell them. A corollary to that issue is the fact that the last news item is the same thing: they failed to get updates and their monitoring failed to tell them. Supposedly their monitoring was fixed then, in 2019. Why should we believe it's any more fixed now?