Wait until management of ICANN is handed over to Zimbabwe.
Obozo is determined to let all the world’s worst governments have influence in the administration of the basic structure and operations of the internet.
That is even more idiotic than allowing the likes of Saudi Arabia, et al. to chair the UN Human Rights Commission.
Taking down the internet can mean two things:
(1) Literally shutting down the internet itself which sends and receives messages between IP addresses (dd.dd.dd.dd). The internet is spread over thousands of routers and there are numerous paths for getting from point a to point b, and the routers are capable of automatically detecting failed links and rerouting to operative ones. It would be practically impossible to shut this thing down.
(2) Shut down the directories (called Name Servers or DNS) that convert such things as yahoo.com to its IP address. There are also lots of Name Servers but it would be easier to cripple this system. The DNS system is a user of the internet, not the internet itself (depending on your own definition of “internet”. It would be easier to cripple the DNS system.
Maybe we should be saving a few IP addresses so we could get to our favorite places even if the DNS system went down. Actually this wouldn’t work will for the complex websites because they call upon the DNS system to fetch supplemental pages that make up what you see.
I’m done for now.