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I think the whole DNS mechanism is broken badly Beside the hundreds of new nonsense TLDs you have domains being taken down for copyright infringment or disside

by yc1010 11y ago

I think the whole DNS mechanism is broken badly Beside the hundreds of new nonsense TLDs you have domains being taken down for copyright infringment or dissident suppression, name squatting and of course domain name frontrunning by registrars And then there are of course DNS aimed DDOS attacks etc Something needs to be done (yes I heard of namecoin) since the web as we know it is getting shittier by the year :(

simoncion 11y ago
Front running is more or less fixed by naming and shaming the registrars. I'll start: GoDaddy is well known for domain name frontrunning. If you search for the availability of a domain using their website, they will likely temporarily register that name, forcing you to use them as a registrar. Use an alternative like gandi.net or Google Domains. > ...then there are of course DNS aimed DDOS attacks... Traffic amplification attacks are possible with protocols that return more data than one sends to trigger the return. > Something needs to be done... Do you, yc1010 have either a specific list of problems with DNS-the-protocol and/or DNS-the-distributed-name-to-address-mapping-system or a set of proposed solutions? :)