Across the West powerful firms are becoming even more powerful

Re:Across the West powerful firms are becoming even more pow... by devwastaken on Friday November 16, 2018 @06:11PM (#18472722)

You can easily shut down the web just by dns. Icann owns pretty much everything and they're not even U.S based anymore.

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Re:Across the West powerful firms are becoming even more pow... by throwaway2048 on Saturday November 17, 2018 @01:50AM (#18474345)

ICANN controls the non technical administrative/political portion of DNS, but the actual DNS root servers are extremely widely distributed.

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Re:Across the West powerful firms are becoming even more pow... by marcosdumay on Friday November 16, 2018 @08:07PM (#18473257)

The DNS is replicated everywhere. A concentrated attack can at most freeze some subdomains.

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