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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Amidst Outage,
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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
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