t's and c's to stop Verisign's own customers being Veri rude. As for the 'no harvesting', whose taking bets before that is quietly slipped into the agreement that even your organs will be harvested?
Verisign opens up its DNS
Verisign is throwing its hat into the “free DNS” ring, promising not to retain information about recursive requests to its just-launched service. Verisign Public DNS is at 64.6.64.6 / 64.6.65.6, alas nowhere near as easy for people to remember as Google's 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4. In the blog post launching the service, the director …
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Thursday 1st October 2015 01:08 GMT Anonymous Coward
"whose taking bets before that is quietly slipped into the agreement that even your organs will be harvested"
You don't have to use them or Google or anyone else's. Simply install your own and get it to start at root hints. Compared to the other metrics and data available from your browser, DNS lookups are pretty poor fare (what are you actually doing on that Register place that I gave you the address for?)
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Thursday 1st October 2015 00:58 GMT Anonymous Coward
For the really advanced users ...
We have another set of highly available IPs to ping for WAN availability. Addresses like 8.8.8.8 and 64.6.64.6 are not single devices or systems and hence are really good targets for "is this internet connection really working".
Normally the wife (other partner choices are available) will inform you in no uncertain terms whether the internet (OK: cat piccy repository) is available. For routers without that grade of monitoring, these addresses are invaluable for multi-link connections to t'tubes. You ping a different one down each connection to confirm if it is really working and not simply connected to your ISP(s).
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Thursday 1st October 2015 05:49 GMT oneeye
Those anti disparaging agreements are illegal here in the US. The FTC is currently dealing with a shady diet fad company who was threatening law suits against former customers who were writing bad reviews of them,which they deserved. Now,because of that,the scummy ripoff artist is in a WHOLE lot more trouble!
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Friday 2nd October 2015 19:03 GMT John Brown (no body)
"Those anti disparaging agreements are illegal here in the US."
Same here in the UK, but better yet, they are completely irrelevant since most people will "discover" the addresses from many sources across the internet with reference to any T&C and they can't make you read the T&Cs before using their DNS service.
I remember someone telling me about Googles 8.8.8.8 some years ago when my ISP was having some DNS issues so I switched my secondary to Google instead of the ISP. Everything went back to normal with most DNS request going to my ISP but I never saw or agreed to any T&Cs for Google.
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Thursday 1st October 2015 09:06 GMT Anonymous Coward
Certificate
I went to https://publicdnsforum.verisign.com/discussion/5/verisign-public-dns-terms-of-service and up popped the browser warning about a bad certificate, only valid for vanillacommunity.com
Can you run this "Verisign is a Global Leader in Domain Names & Internet Security" thing past me again.