[Chapter-delegates] PIR and wikileaks.ORG

[Marcin Cieslak]

On Sat, 4 Dec 2010, Jon Zittrain wrote:

> A quick technical question: isn't (wasn't?) EveryDNS just the registrar, not 
> the registry?  At the end of the day it's the registry -- Afilias? -- that 
> operationally resolves a .org name, not the registrar.  The registrar just is 
> the party authorized/expected to make any changes in the registry entries for 
> the names it registers.  So how would a DDOS against the DNS resolution 
> service -- the reason cited by EveryDNS for its ... deregistering? changing 
> the pointed-to site to null? ... involve EveryDNS and its customers?  ...JZ

Well, registry (@Afilias) still points to everydns:

org.			172800	IN	NS	b0.org.afilias-nst.org.
org.			172800	IN	NS	d0.org.afilias-nst.org.
org.			172800	IN	NS	c0.org.afilias-nst.info.
org.			172800	IN	NS	a2.org.afilias-nst.info.
org.			172800	IN	NS	b2.org.afilias-nst.org.
org.			172800	IN	NS	a0.org.afilias-nst.info.
;; Received 433 bytes from 2001:503:ba3e::2:30#53(a.root-servers.net) in 129 ms

wikileaks.org.		86400	IN	NS	ns1.everydns.net.
wikileaks.org.		86400	IN	NS	ns2.everydns.net.
wikileaks.org.		86400	IN	NS	ns3.everydns.net.
wikileaks.org.		86400	IN	NS	ns4.everydns.net.
;; Received 115 bytes from 2001:500:f::1#53(d0.org.afilias-nst.org) in 43 ms

;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

//Marcin