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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Interesting new dns failures
On Mon, 21 May 2007 [email protected] wrote: > > > There's an interesting read from NRIC about this problem: > > "Signposts on the information superhighway" I think it's > > called. Essentially no one aside from propeller-head folks > > understand that there is something aside from 'com' > > Seems to me they are missing something here. Essentially no-on except > from propeller-head folks uses the DNS for anything at all. Websites > come from Google or bookmarks. Email addresses come from a directory or > an incoming email or a business card. This is sort of the point of the NRIC document/book... 'we need to find/make/use a directory system for the internet' then much talk of how "dns was supposed to be that but for a number of reasons it's not, google/<insert favorite search engine> is instead" > > P.S., the .xx domains make the world look like a collection of countries > all connected to the same Internet. But the reality is that the world is > divided into a bunch of language zones, most of which cross several > borders, and which don't tend to communicate much with the Internet that > Americans see. For instance, what use does a Hungarian speaking native > of Ukraine have for cnn.com? Or a SerboCroatian speaking native of > Hungary? > oh, cnn doesn't publish their content in these tongues? :) they are missing a marketting opportunity! :) -Chris
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