[Chapter-delegates] PIR and wikileaks.ORG

[Marcin Cieslak]

On Sat, 4 Dec 2010, Jon Zittrain wrote:

> Thanks, Peter, Marcin and Desiree -- from the sound of it, then, this has 
> absolutely nothing to do with ICANN, PIR, Afilias, or Dynadot.  Wikileaks 
> elected to use a nameserver that isn't working (at least for them) anymore; 
> they can choose a new one whenever they want.  It has nothing to do with the 
> bottlenecks found within the canonical DNS system.  Indeed, the DNS system is 
> designed to let them fix problems like this as it comes up, and I gather 
> there's no reason for EveryDNS to have a contract with anyone in the ICANN 
> hierarchy and below.  It's just pointed to the way that a site at an IP 
> address is pointed to by a domain name.  If a Web server at www.site.org goes 
> down, and thus we type www.site.org and get nothing back, we don't blame 
> ICANN and friends for the problem -- they have nothing to do with it.  ...JZ

I have a question about the "torrent-finder.com" - do you think this one qualifies
as the "bottleneck withing the DNS system"?

(Not saying that ICANN was involved in any way here)

//Marcin