Okay, someone acknowledged the dang issue; I was starting to feel like I was in some weird parallel universe because I only know of like 4 .space domains off the top of my head: mine and awoo.space which has a huge TTL and I had it cached.
https://www.namecheap.com/status-updates/issue-with-space-domains/
@noiob Some people and instances probably failed to get to you but yeah, you have longer DNS TTLs than I do, and I'm now making mine longer >_>