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French Court Orders Google DNS to Block Pirate Sites, Dismisses ‘Cloudflare-First’ Defense * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
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[–] 1 point 10 months ago (6 children)

What is that? I've read most of the thing and I still don't have a clue.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    If I understand correctly, root means that they are authoritative. They are effectively independent of the classical root DNS servers and provide custom top level domains (TLDs) such as .geek which are not available in the regular DNS system. Non root DNS servers merely relay requests to root servers or other DNS servers and cache response records according to their time to live (TTL).

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Most DNS systems just act as a cache for the "root" domain name servers controlled by ICANN, an American corporation.

    This operates independently and adds their own, additional, top level domains.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    That last part is what is catching my attention the most.
    Does that mean that those domains can only be seen through their dns servers? Or just registered through them and everyone can see them?

    Looks like using any other dns only has down sides.

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