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You can easily shut down the web just by dns. Icann owns pretty much everything and they're not even U.S based anymore.
by devwastaken 8y ago
You can easily shut down the web just by dns. Icann owns pretty much everything and they're not even U.S based anymore.
- marcosdumay 8y agoThe DNS is replicated everywhere. A concentrated attack can at most freeze some subdomains.
- throwaway2048 8y agoICANN controls the non technical administrative/political portion of DNS, but the actual DNS root servers are extremely widely distributed. https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/dns-root-server-transparency https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/dns-root-server-tran... https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/screen-shot-2017-01-11-at-14-49-20.png/@@images/image/large https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/screen-shot-2017-01-...