Inside the Rise of the Domain Name System 74
Greg Huang writes "Looking back, it's almost impossible to believe that for most of the 1990s, a single company, Network Solutions, had a government-issued monopoly on registering domain names on the Internet. And considering how central the company was to the growth of the Web, it's surprising how little of the company's back story — how it got into the domain name business, or who owned it — has been told. Xconomy has an in-depth interview with two former executives from SAIC, the secretive San Diego defense contractor that bought Network Solutions in 1995 for $5 million and sold off the domain registration business in 2000 for billions of dollars."
Re:Single entity (Score:1, Funny)
The answer to that is obvious: God.
Duh.
Oblig. (Score:3, Funny)
DNS became self aware at 2:14 am EDT August 29, 1997.
Be afraid, very afraid.
That said, it's time for distributed secure name resolution. Those name servers are just too easily messed with. There are many approaches, mostly used in P2P, from Kad to Freenet.
Re:Not To Celebrate Network Solutions, But... (Score:1, Funny)
and because the guy who parked it originally died
C'mon...Considering the number of people who have died in the last 5000 years I doubt his death was very "original."