old-ager wrote:
Here’s a tasty tidbit for y’all. Anyone running the “root” “name servers” for the “Internet” can hijack ANY domain at ANY time. So, they can make your email and web traffic go someplace else. Have you ever reset a password via a link sent in email? What if your email went to someone else due to a DNS hijack?
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They've had 20 years to do so and have not so far (except by accident). The 12 organizations running the root servers report to a committee and the committee reports to both ICANN and the US Dept of Commerce. Nothing will really change in that kind of plumbing and if someone changed it, it would be quickly reverted or bypassed.