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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Semi-seriously in the sense of, "hey, Twitter has a LOT of activity... umm... could we do something useful with all those connected computers?" Not in the sense of "here's an actual plan to do something DNS-related with Twitter users."
The impression I got was a conversation that went something like, "hah ha, twitter's so big and active it could do DNS hosting... nah, don't be silly... wait, Twitter is awfully big..." Nothing cohesive, just actual thought in the direction of possibilities.
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Ahhhh, I gotcha now. My wife mentioned something similar along the lines of distributed computing e.g. SETI@Home, Folding@Home, BOINC, etc.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
There's a group working on distributed DNS: Dot-p2p. I am not a computer geek; I don't know how DNS works; I have no idea how feasible or not this is. I am just fascinated by the idea of "taking back the internet" from large telecommunications companies. |
I just happened to be looking into that earlier this week, as well as dashcom which looks to take the actual naming process away from ICANN should they prove, as many people now suspect, of being incapable of neutral behavior.
You bring up a valid concern (especially in the U.S.), and your timing is uncanny; see
this thread and read up on COICA for why.