“Domain registries will start denying renewal of domain names.“
Sorry, dumb question: This will cut traffic to sites enormously, but we should use the straight IP addresses of key websites?
But a VPN won’t help with step 2, right?
Now that is a very good question. But it is two in one. The only real difference is whether the site can be indexed by domain name for search engines and browsers or not. I honestly do not know how the domain name hooks to the straight IP addresses for sure. But I think the straight addresses could be blocked just as domain names could.
But I do know you have to have a registered domain name to get any server hosting for your site. Hosts are not going to give service to anyone who is not a legitimate registered domain. So how to access the site is not so much a problem as the website even being there to access at all.
This will be the real problem with my statement you quoted. I have suggested it for years, it is time to dump the whole current system. Time to set up servers that go completely around the centralized industry, registering, and domain name services. And use an installed desktop client/specialized browser to access these servers. The only control they could implement would be restricting access right at our own personal local internet access carrier.
This is something that has been around for awhile as P2P protocol. And it works, been playing with it for awhile now, like “Zeronet”.
But current P2P clients use a network of private peer nodes to replace the computing power of the huge centralized system servers. All that needs to happen is set up bigger node servers that can also handle this same protocol so the service is not just dependent on the peer node network. Just bigger private nodes per say.
45.79.56.181 (freerepublic.com)
Insert numeric IP and it takes you to FR. If domain servers were down, it would still take you here but the numeric address would remain in the browser’s url field.
FR actually had a problem with their domain name setup last year but the site could still be accessed via numeric IP.