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How does a backup server help you with a domain name registrar taking your domain away? And how does it help you with government interference? What?
by leobelle 13y ago
How does a backup server help you with a domain name registrar taking your domain away? And how does it help you with government interference? What?
- a3n 13y agoIt doesn't help with that, but it does help with continuity of operations. If his domain is taken and his operations are otherwise interfered with, he can then move operations elsewhere, under a different domain. I'm sure 90+% of anyone reading his site would learn of the new domain within days. And then he'd have another story to write.
- jonknee 13y agoThe domain doesn't matter, the content does. If a server or domain gets seized the site can be up within minutes at another URL on different hardware. If it's not already, I wouldn't be surprised if it was also accessible on a .onion URL like their dropbox is. Having one of the richest men in the world writing your checks means that the domain is very unlikely to be seized. They play those games with people who can't fight back. Pierre Omidyar can fight back.
- CWuestefeld 13y agoIf a server or domain gets seized the site can be up within minutes at another URL If a tree falls in the forest... The fact that some server, somewhere, is available to service requests doesn't do very much, if your readers don't know where that is. The DNS system is the normal way of doing so.
- craigching 13y agoI think people who care would find out pretty quick what happened and where to go next. Popularity on DNS is not the only way to be popular ;) This isn't the first time Glenn has moved, he had his own blog for awhile, moved to salon, then to the Guardian. It doesn't seemed to have stopped people from finding him.