A interesting note from a very smart person:
“This morning I woke up to find .gov missing. Now, I know that some people would find that an exciting, positive event. But on the net it wasn’t so positive, but it was exciting. What seems to have occurred is this: – DNSSEC keys for .gov expired – The rollover to new keys was such that some DNSSEC enforcing resolvers began to not accept .gov. – That, in turn, meant that to some users .gov had vanished. My ISP at home is Comcast and of the two name servers they provide for me to use, one had .gov the other did not. I’ve been chatting with my ISP, Comcast about this. They grumbled that this isn’t the first time something like this has occurred. So I asked “what lessons can we learn so that we (meaning those folks applying for new TLDs) can do things better?” I was vectored to the following two notes. I have not had time to do more than a very fast skim of these. But there might be some good stuff in there for us to incorporate into our DNSSEC procedures.
http://www.dnssec.comcast.net/images/files/dnssec_validation_failure_nasagov_20120118_final.pdf http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-livingood-negative-trust-anchors-01″
The answer to this problem – and others – is simple: never accept a single point of authority in order to validate something.
How symbolic since no one or help is to be found on these sites any way, if even they can be found.
I suggest they rebrand as .US and reduce the websites and pages by 90%. They would be required to have a great search engine, proper topic and, menus, articles written in plain english and in big fonts as well as a suggestion box where someone would be accountable to answering every question openly. Just like they set a price of $200K per lot for tracking rights, they would take back in use domains by eminent domain at $200K credit towards taxes, healthcare, pension or other gov services. Domains they don’t need like duiattorneys.us would be licensed to honest players whop pass a rigorous test and pay a $10K and 1% of revenues renewal fee which is applied directly to paying down debt. No foreign Citizen or anonymous entity can now a .us. Family names and surnames would be sub-domain licensed again with the revenue going directly to paying down the deficit. Reduce the BS, Reduce the Debt and Raise the power of the Internet to serve people in the spirit of the give’s charter.
Sorry for typos- darn Apple auto-correct anyone know how to disable?
Last line I meant “spirit of the government’s charter”
Develop a gov web centric template for us then license to other countries again to bring down debt (like WordPress)
Need to create jobs? I just created 1000s of them!
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