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First of all, CIRA is not the government, it is an elected public company. Second of all, it is not switching to use CIRA's DNS, it is added CIRA DNS to their

First of all, CIRA is not the government, it is an elected public company. Second of all, it is not switching to use CIRA's DNS, it is added CIRA DNS to their revolver so .ca domains get fed through Mozilla's DNS over HTTP, rather then going Mozilla DNS <-> CIRA.

betaby 5y ago
No? What does it even mean 'added CIRA DNS to their revolver so .ca domains get fed through Mozilla's DNS over HTTP'. Please explain in technical terms.
- dubcanada 5y ago
  CIRA is a root domain company (like Verisign for .com), it has root records because it owns the root nameservers for all .ca domains. All they are doing is adding those to Mozilla's existing supply (Cloudflare provides other DNS records). So rather then going Mozilla -> Cloudflare -> CIRA and back, it now just goes Mozilla -> CIRA. I don't have time to explain how DNS works. Look up Mozilla’s Trusted Recursive Resolver and how it works.
  - betaby 5y ago
    No. Mozilla changes is about recursor, not '.ca' domain.