Happy United Nations Day!!
· 10/24/2005 11:53 AM by Steve Gigl
No, really. My calendar says so.
To celebrate this glorious day, I thought about what would happen if the UN controlled the internet:
... Cost to register a domain name: $500/month.
... Cost to register a ”.il” domain: $50k/month.
... Yes, you’d have to reregister every month, and it would take 4-6 weeks to process.
... Time to propagate DNS changes: six months (only 3 months if you grease a few palms in Ghana).
... Load times: FOXNews.com: 3 hours; CNN.com: 1 hour; Al Jazeera: 3 seconds.
... All ”.il” domain names redirected to ”.ps” sites.
... FireFox and other open-source browsers suddenly don’t render any pages correctly. This would happen just after Microsoft opens a new design center in the home country of the Secretary General.
... Internet quarantine makes linking to US sites impossible. Countries with non-socialist, non-parliamentary political systems are so full of “hate speech,” aren’t they?
... China controls the DNS servers (naturally), resulting in a new error message would appearing on Taiwanese web sites: 405: Country not found
(blame Jeff Goldstein for prompting this)
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