Comment by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | Hacker News Reader

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Third party root servers are generally used for looking up TLD nameservers, not for looking up domainnames registered to individuals publishing personal blogs^1

Fortunately, one can publish on the www without using ICANN DNS

For example http://199.233.217.201 or https://199.233.217.201

1. I have run own root server for over 15 years

An individual cannot even mention choosing to publish a personal blog over HTTP without being subjected to a kneejerk barrage of inane blather. This is truly a sad state of affairs

I'm experimenting with non-TLS, per packet encryption with a mechanism for built-in virtual hosting (no SNI) and collision-proof "domainnames" on the home network as a reminder that TLS is not the only way to do HTTPS

It's true we depend on ISPs for internet service but that's not a reason to let an unlimited number of _additional_ third parties intermediate and surveil everything we do over the internet

> inane blather

And this is why it's a good thing that every major browser will make it more and more painful, precisely so that instead of arguments about it, we'll just have people deciding whether they want their sites accessible by others or not.

Unencrypted protocols are being successfully deprecated.

You have some weird definition of "root".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root, so you could (and people have/are) run your own root server.

Definition of "root server"

Authoritative DNS nameserver that serves root.zone, e.g., the one provided by ICANN, or maybe a customised one

In own case it is served only to me on local network

Many years ago, one of the former ICANN board members mentioned on his personal blog running his own root

People using the web can choose what software to use. This includes both client software and server software. Arguably the later ultimately determines whether HTTP is still available on the internet, regardless of whether it is used by any particular client software, e.g., a popular browser

One advertising company through its popular "free browser", a Trojan Horse to collect data for its own purposes, may attempt to "deprecate" an internet protocol by using its influence

But at least in theory such advertising companies are not in charge of such protocols, and whether the public, including people who write server software or client software, can use them or not

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