Choose Your Root DNS Server
An alphabet soup of groups, agencies, and greedy monopolists are
fighting over control of the root nameservers. NSI, ICANN, CORE, the
U.S. Department of Commerce, and others are debating who should
control the contents of the root DNS servers. NSI has held a
government-granted monopoly, which they have used to financial gain
through an IPO. Various other groups are trying to force NSI to open
up their registry to use by other parties, which NSI is resisting as
strongly as it can without upsetting the U.S. government.
What they overlook is the fact that users are free to choose their own
DNS servers. By changing their DNS server IP address to point to an
alternate nameserver, end users can pick who they want to control the
internet namespace. Do they want a privacy-violating, security-ignorant
monopoly like NSI? I think many will choose otherwise.
Alternate nameservers include:
Don't let wealthy monopolists or politicians choose who manages domain
names -- take a stand and choose for yourself! If you are running
Linux, you can choose your DNS server by following instructions on
each of the above sites. Windows users can change their DNS server to
AlterNIC by following the instructions
at AlterNIC.
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