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In article bje@ripco.com says...

> Alternate DNS has been around since the beginning, I think, if I 
remember
> correctly, even Karl from MCS was involved with one. First one I remember
> was Carl Palmer, was called the rabbit network. Alternate root servers,
> alternate DNS servers. Actually it's possible Carl and Karl were in bed
> together, or mortal enimies, forgot about all that until now.

If Karl was involved then was he trying to set up a porn free DNS 
network?  That could have been a legit feature actually for families 
with young children.  Karl would be King of Virtue.

> They exist now to an extent, I beleive if you use TOR (the onion 
router),
> there is another TLD called .onion you can access. In theory, stuff not in
> the .onion TLD gets dropped through from the normal root servers, ones with
> the .onion extention get added in.

I heard TOR is in extreme peril with passage of SOPA.  Anything 
anonymous will be and probably anything using strong encryption.


> Like you pointed out, no one anywhere can "own" a domain name. No 
matter who
> you are, how many you claim ownership to, you are mearly renting them on a
> year-to-year basis. And don't me where all the money is going to, because I
> don't know. Godaddy alone is supposed to have 32 million registrations,
> ignoring all their other services and averaging a renewal at $10, thats $320
> million a year just for them.

With the passage of SOPA there will be demand for alternate DNS and not 
just for pirates.  I haven't read much about the great Chinese firewall 
but wonder how that's enforced.  Do they blacklist IP ranges at the 
nation's edge routers?  If so, how is this blacklist maintained?  Inside 
China Internet censorship would be easy to enforce.  Just track down the 
violator's IP to their home address and send a team to roust the 
bastards.  I'm sure they don't have to go through any pesky court 
proceedings with all the due process mamby pamby stuff.

The court battles with alternate DNS could be interesting however.  
Let's say Microsoft builds their own DNS which maps all google requests 
to bing.  Is that violating any law?  It's their DNS and people 
voluntarily choose to use their DNS so how could google complain?

BTW: Both our Senators are yes votes for SOPA.  Durbin is a co-sponsor 
and Kirk got $750K from pro-SOPA forces.  Both our guys are bought and 
paid for so no use writing them a letter.