how will this work? will i need to pay a certificate supplier to secure my own address? how much will that be? and how do i configure my local dns server/cache so that this information is propagated?
So besides twitter being redirected to google (for example), how will this really affect the browsers of the internet? I assume by safer- the article meant for users.
DNS hijacking can mean things like redirecting Google to your own servers and then catching people's Gmail logins. Some popular website (e.g. Facebook) could have their DNS redirected to a website that exploits a user's browser. So you go to facebook.com and you end up with malware or a virus.
Don't hold your breath, the Internet has been "about to get a lot safer" for over a decade.
Yes, there's a lot of inertia in infrastructure. And the Internet's infrastructure isn't as centralized as, say, the power infrastructure. There's a lot of links in the DNS chain that will have to be replaced. And I shudder to think about all the links that won't be replaced until they die.