Well, everyone, you can now submit a comment to let the FCC know what you think about SpaceX asking for 1 million satellites for "AI datacenters" whatever the fuck that means.

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-113A1.pdf

Comments due March 6.

I am having a very hard time believing this is really happening. Fuck you, SpaceX, and fuck you, FCC. This is not regulation, this is a fucking joke, that will destroy our ability to use satellites for centuries.

If anyone has time and energy to set up instructions for how to submit a comment to the FCC (it's really fucking complicated, on purpose, I'm sure), I would very much appreciate it! Otherwise I'll do it in the coming days.

@sundogplanets

If somebody wants to venture into this, please test all steps.

The first one involves sending an email to [email protected] with "get form" and your email address in the message body.

The reply I got was trying to strangely gaslight me:

"Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups:

[email protected]
Your message couldn't be delivered. The Domain Name System (DNS) reported that the recipient's domain does not exist."

There seems to be a strange subdomain falstaff.fcc.gov involved. The attached error log says:

Diagnostic information for administrators:

Generating server: SJ0PR09MB11735.namprd09.prod.outlook.com

[email protected]
Remote server returned '550 5.4.310 DNS domain falstaff.fcc.gov does not exist [Message=InfoDomainNonexistent] [LastAttemptedServerName=falstaff.fcc.gov] [SA2PEPF00003023.namprd09.prod.outlook.com 2026-02-05T12:30:46.776Z 08DE6078A5284768]'

@katzenberger @sundogplanets
# whois.nic.gov

Domain Name: fcc.gov
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.nic.gov
Registrar URL: https://get.gov
Updated Date: 2025-07-21T18:50:44Z
Creation Date: 1997-10-02T01:29:23Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2026-07-16T18:50:44Z
Registrar: get.gov
Registrar IANA ID: 8888888
Registrar Abuse Contact Email:
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone:
Domain Status: serverTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverTransferProhibited

get.gov

.Gov is the top-level domain for governments in the U.S. Request and manage a .gov domain.

@katzenberger @sundogplanets I wonder if they'll remember to re-up the domain before July 16. Someone far cleverer than I should see if they can take control of it.