ITworld – Gov’t crackdown spurs initiatives to route around DNS

Regardless of the supposed criminal intent of the affected systems, the seizure without notice of these domain names by US authorities sent shock-waves around the Internet world. It got people’s attention in a much stronger way than version 1 of this enforcement operation had — the first iteration late last June seized the names of nine sites selling pirated first-run movies. Many people woke up to the reality of how vulnerable the DNS is to government meddling.

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Within days of the ICE/DHS seizures, at least three separate initiatives to work around the DNS had been announced, and several existing alternatives were highlighted in the ensuing discussion. Let’s take a look at some of these proposals — two to route around and one to supplant the DNS — and some of the obstacles they face.

via ITworld – Gov’t crackdown spurs initiatives to route around DNS. DNS unfortunately is too easily interfered with on the basis of political decisions.