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[ NNSquad ] Amidst Outage, GoDaddy Moves DNS to Competitor VeriSign
Amidst Outage, GoDaddy Moves DNS to Competitor VeriSign http://j.mp/S5c8IG (Wired) "Following a day-long Domain Name Service server outage, web hosting provider GoDaddy is letting its competitor, VeriSign, host its DNS servers. On Friday afternoon - about four hours after it was knocked offline - GoDaddy's administrators made a change to the company's DNS records, indicating that they were shifting control of the servers from GoDaddy to VeriSign." - - - The DNS -- from technical, policy, and just about every other angle you can name, has become a rickety, obsolete train wreck. Adding on masses of new TLDs, DNSSEC, and all the rest, is like piling more floors onto a high-rise version of the Munster Mansion built on a foundation that makes the Leaning Tower of Pisa look well-sited by comparision. It's time to thank DNS for its hard work, and prepare it to join the other residents of punched-card and magnetic tape heaven. Whether the replacement is a distributed IDONS-type system or something else, the writing has long been on the wall. Now the walls are caving in. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad