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Someone has to maintain a list.

• dreen 13y ago
  OK so the responses seem to boil down to this. My question is rather why that list cannot live in a globally distributed database inside thousands of DNS servers, everywhere, operated by ISPs and volunteers. Sort of like now but every server would have a near-complete list of all domains that have no syntax or schema. I guess the infrastructure costs would be higher, but what are other downsides? It definitely wouldn't be possible at the time of creation of DNS, but I can't see why it wouldn't be now.
  • dec0dedab0de 13y ago
    Thats exactly how it works now. http://www.iana.org/domains/root/files http://www.iana.org/domains/root/files
    • dreen 13y ago
      It doesnt because we have TLDs. Why is the hierarchy necessary? Why can't we have a one big list of strings matched with IP addresses?