(From a friend on www.flote.app)
The first thing I learned after html and apache way back when, was named and bind. I learned how to write the text zone files on my own name servers, that I maintained in my home office. My name servers were not authoritative name servers that everyone depended on, but they contained the information to find my websites and my email server, and so on. That information propagated up to higher name servers until back then, finally my websites and email server could work properly.
But those authoritative name servers that the internet relies on are controlled by private companies now- mostly ISPs we used to think of as telcos. Route 53 is authoritative for cloud.
If you have ever run your own email server to work with your domain name you know what an MX record is. Most people have no idea what goes on under the hood at even their domain registrar.
But it is not simply domain names, it is IP traffic. Routing from one IP address to the next, to the next.
Hence the word Router.
Facebook went down on purpose, sanctioned by the company, to coincide with this fake “whistleblower” and what they want is not merely for social media, but for all websites, and IP addresses, to be controlled in such a way for at least two things:
1. Only Corporate and Politically “Approved” Traffic is allowed.
2. That will include covid vax traffic.
Why have to chase down the millions of sites out there, and go after them, one by one, or even social media domain by domain?
All that is needed is no more ICANN domain registrations without “I will censor all my traffic to follow the latest guidelines of…” and then make your payment in covid vax only currency.
Oh, your domain needs renewed? Oh, you have a “Forever” domain? it simply will not be on the whitelist.
So you can imagine:
CNN.com will be on the whitelist.
Facebook.com will be on the whitelist.
A smattering of government and some Federal Reserve, IMF, etc will be on the whitelist.
But maybe your local news channel will not. Your local channel 4 or 6 or 10 or your local radio station- they just will not be in the inner loop.
So all the Karen traffic will come in- “what about me? I am communist liberal marxist, put me on the list, I agree with all your tyranny and I want everyone who disagrees to die, so I am on your side, pick me! pick me!”
Some of them will follow certification process- No unvaxxed employees, no libertaian, anarachist or conservative employees, everyone vaxxed, everyone up to date on their shots…
My guess is, a domain will have to submit and up to date vax report on a periodic basis to stay whitelisted.
But they will not have enough money to build the censorship required in their own websites.
So Facebook and YouTube/Google have already done this. The government will tell them, build your own at your expense by this date, with demonstrated effective results, or just pay Facebook or Google to flag your traffic for you.
Regardless the initial efforts of others, eventually, only the big sites will survive the on-going requirements.
So your domain will not be on the list for long, even if at first, you capitulate.
Which means, you will have to think of the internet differently.
The internet as we know it is going away.