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In 2023 operations for the .GOV TLD transitioned from Verisign to Cloudflare

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Re: In 2023 operations for the .GOV TLD transitioned from Verisign to Cloudflare

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Post by phantompeace »

Tijdreiziger wrote: post #17
6d6b73 wrote: post #11

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> since Cloudflare is a CIA operation Source for this extraordinary claim?

They were probably exaggerating but it’s well known that American agencies can and will extort whatever they need from any American company and the organisation wouldn’t even be legally allowed to disclose that it even happened through secrecy and gag orders.

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Post by dinkleberg »

overstay8930 wrote: post #10

It is shocking how few people understand how DNS works

It never fails to amuse. Our world is full of really complex tech which people are eager to learn, yet those same people will seem to be allergic to DNS despite it being very simple (at least the main parts of it).

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Post by dinkleberg »

SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #20
overstay8930 wrote: post #10

It is shocking how few people understand how DNS works

In people’s defense DNS is complicated. Try building a product that uses it and realize there are a ton of edge cases to handle

They don’t need to know the edge cases to understand the basics of how DNS works. It is a foundational element of how the internet works and any software dev should have at least some fundamental knowledge of it (unless they don’t do anything that ever touched networking which I imagine is rather rare).

Re: In 2023 operations for the .GOV TLD transitioned from Verisign to Cloudflare

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Post by stefan_ »

overstay8930 wrote: post #10

It is shocking how few people understand how DNS works

It is shocking how few people understand how business works. If you think Cloudflare wants to be in the registrar business, not push their Anti DDoS stuff on a captive audience, I have a bridge to sell you.

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Post by tephra »

SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #20
overstay8930 wrote: post #10

It is shocking how few people understand how DNS works

In people’s defense DNS is complicated. Try building a product that uses it and realize there are a ton of edge cases to handle

While there are certainly complex and weird stuff in the DNS world. The basic of how the DNS works is really not that complicated.

Re: In 2023 operations for the .GOV TLD transitioned from Verisign to Cloudflare

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Post by tiffanyh »

overstay8930 wrote: post #10

It is shocking how few people understand how DNS works

Given this isn’t only DNS, agreed.

This changes:

- Registry,

- Name Server and

- DNSEC

More details here:

https://indico.dns-oarc.net/event/48/contributions/1038/atta...

Re: In 2023 operations for the .GOV TLD transitioned from Verisign to Cloudflare

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Post by randunel »

stefan_ wrote: post #7

Does this mean every GOV page will now have the "pretend security check" interstitial that litter just about every page now? How do you even describe it, it's like they are vandalising the internet.

You're getting downvoted, but I guess none of the downvoters tried to apply recently on https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta/, I'm getting the infinite turnstile cloudflare hcaptchas. It's probably happening to most people trying to use that website from 3rd world countries.

Re: In 2023 operations for the .GOV TLD transitioned from Verisign to Cloudflare

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Post by randunel »

profmonocle wrote: post #9
jmclnx wrote: post #6

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They've just taken over authorative DNS. The captchas come from their CDN product.

You can't use https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta/ from my country without an infinity of hcaptchas by CF turnstile.
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