News at 11: American Terrified of DNS
I registered with facebook some weeks ago, and think it’s a pretty cool website. I made a parody version of their front page called arsebook, and it has been pretty well visited with nearly 40,000 visitors so far.
I didn’t think that everyone who came to see the site would get the joke - thats part of the fun, but by and large “the blogosphere” has well received the site and had a laugh. Or so I thought.
Step forward one guy who claims to be the “Realtor Genius”. I hope he does know more about real estate than the internet, because on another bloggers’ site, he declares that he can’t “trust” the site because it’s a dot org.
What a genius !
Excuse me, “BR” the genius, a domain name is a few lines in a zone file somewhere. Nothing more, nothing less. If the public are now building trust relationships around the DNS, then we have some serious problems stored up for the future.
Posted: July 16th, 2007 under Uncategorized.
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August 21st, 2007 at 11:40 am
A little behind the ball here, and an admitter of digg-following, but I read this and just had to comment…
The distrust of certain DNS entries and locations are by now the subject of wary browsing and communcation- sadly this has been built from years of abuse from notorious spammer/etc TLDs. Of course, the first assumption isn’t always the correct guess about the authenticity/good nature of certain TLDs, and the mixture of incomplete understanding of how it all actually works, from their request, through DNS servers, and on through many hops to the end destination.
Most people though, they tend to run away from things that they ‘think are bad’. Some of the nicest and gentlest dogs I have ever met have been pitbulls, although its always wise to think for two seconds before jamming your hand (or PC) in there.
But distrust of .ORG? Well, there goes .COM and .NET as well.
August 23rd, 2007 at 4:51 am
I’m afraid of .info(s)