Re: This is bad
"The internet was designed to route around damage and with luck those actually running the web will do likewise and ignore this farce."
It may have been originally. Over the last 20 years it has systematically been stripped of redundancies and is dependent on a few tier1s and the root servers.
ICANN should never have been allowed to rollout all those alternate gTLDs. The fact that it went roughshod over existing eTLD/altTLDs effectively wiped out another layer of redundancy and cemented their monopoly control over DNS. As it stands right now, if "we" don't like the way they run things there are no alternate DNS systems to turn to.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
