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Sledog
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Website I use and millions of others use. The NAZI's are marching!
Today, around 1400 EST, the domain name registrar GoDaddy, which hosts the
master domain name service (DNS) record for ar15.com, deleted ar15.com's DNS
records with no warning.
For those who have no idea what I'm saying, think about it this way: if
there was a master phone book for your number and all other phone books
referenced it, if the folks who controlled that master phone book took your
number out of it, then within just a few minutes your phone number would be
automatically be erased from every other phone book on the planet.
The good news is that the people who run ar15.com are very astute. As far as
I know, they run their own server farm that nobody else controls. They were
able to move to a different DNS provider quite quickly and it took about two
hours to do that and for the new DNS records to populate around the world.
However, that was only the first battle.
There are only a small number of major DNS providers around the world. The
system is designed to be completely automatic and transparent. Anyone who
holds a master DNS record will see it populated on all DNS services around
the world. But this only works if that entry is not blocked, such as they do
in China, etc.
So now the question is will there be another battle, where we see major DNS
providers like Google, Cloudflare, OpenDNS (reference
https://em360tech.com/business_agility/tech-features-featuredtech-news/top-1
0-enterprise-dns-providers)
decide to block ar15.com. That means that huge swaths of people, most of
whom have NO idea how any of this works, will lose the ability to use the
ar15.com website unless they can figure out how to change their computers,
routers and other equipment to point to a different DNS provider.
Another potential battle: if the internet service provider who connects the
ar15.com server farm to the internet decides they don't want to anymore,
that could be another impediment.
Today, around 1400 EST, the domain name registrar GoDaddy, which hosts the
master domain name service (DNS) record for ar15.com, deleted ar15.com's DNS
records with no warning.
For those who have no idea what I'm saying, think about it this way: if
there was a master phone book for your number and all other phone books
referenced it, if the folks who controlled that master phone book took your
number out of it, then within just a few minutes your phone number would be
automatically be erased from every other phone book on the planet.
The good news is that the people who run ar15.com are very astute. As far as
I know, they run their own server farm that nobody else controls. They were
able to move to a different DNS provider quite quickly and it took about two
hours to do that and for the new DNS records to populate around the world.
However, that was only the first battle.
There are only a small number of major DNS providers around the world. The
system is designed to be completely automatic and transparent. Anyone who
holds a master DNS record will see it populated on all DNS services around
the world. But this only works if that entry is not blocked, such as they do
in China, etc.
So now the question is will there be another battle, where we see major DNS
providers like Google, Cloudflare, OpenDNS (reference
https://em360tech.com/business_agility/tech-features-featuredtech-news/top-1
0-enterprise-dns-providers)
decide to block ar15.com. That means that huge swaths of people, most of
whom have NO idea how any of this works, will lose the ability to use the
ar15.com website unless they can figure out how to change their computers,
routers and other equipment to point to a different DNS provider.
Another potential battle: if the internet service provider who connects the
ar15.com server farm to the internet decides they don't want to anymore,
that could be another impediment.