Continuing the Distributed DNS System

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @12:59AM from the labor-of-love dept.

bs0d3 writes "Last year, piratebay co-founder Peter Sunde gathered coders to begin a decentralized dns system. This is a direct result of the increasing control which the US government has over ICANN. The project is called P2P-DNS and according to the project's wiki, this is how the project is described: 'P2P-DNS is a community project that will free internet users from imperial control of DNS by ICANN. In order to prevent unjust prosecution or denial of service, P2P-DNS will operate as a distributed and less centralized service hosted by the users of DNS. Today the project continues, barely. A majority of interest shifted to namecoin once the idea was realized, but coder Caleb James DeLisle continues on the first project. So far he has DHT nodes and routers worked out, and awaits help on his IRC channel whenever volunteers are willing to join."

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Re:ICANN? No you can't, buddy. by cavreader · 2011-10-18 01:27 · Score: 1, Flamebait

While there is a lot to criticize about the US government their administration of the DNS servers has been pretty solid. Maybe you would like to transfer control to the UN? Most of those fuckwits need their aides to show them how to access their e-mail and Twitter setup and do not have the slightest understanding of what the DNS actually does.