Global .shop TLD root zone outage affecting users worldwide

A global outage affecting domains in the .shop zone is currently being observed.

The issue originates at the .shop zone's root servers (managed by GMO Registry) level and is independent of the registrar.

Example:

; <<>> DiG 9.8.7 <<>> @a.gmoregistry.net nic.shop IN NS +nostats +noquestion
; (2 servers found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 23792
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
shop. 3600 IN SOA a.gmoregistry.net. noc.gmoregistry.net. 1790276407 1800 900 604800 3600