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Ask HN: Could we make a dns system that steals back domains from squatters?
HN, could we create a DNS system that steals back domains that have been determined to be held by squatter/large domain registrar networks that clearly have no intent to use them? Is this morally ok?
- ChuckMcM 14y agoNo, you can't do that. That said, there is absolutely nothing from preventing you from creating a parallel DNS infrastructure which copies the part of DNS you like, and doesn't copy the part you don't like. Running a root server is not a whole lot different (except in scale) than running a regular DNS server. Distribute your own root cache to your 'clients' put a copy of the root servers for the domains you care about into your machines and recursively resolve the rest with the regular system. At one time this would have been prohibitively expensive but with Amazon's EC-2 service you could run a separate namespace for about a million customers easily for $600/month maybe less.
- damian2000 14y agoWhat would then stop the squatters running their own pro-squatter DNS system in parallel?
- Lasher 14y agoPresumably nobody would use the name servers that they knew were on a shadow DNS being run by "squatters", so there would be no value to the names and no point squatting them in the first place.
- ohashi 14y agoWhat happens when someone buys one in the real dns and someone else is using it in your parallel dns? Who really owns it?