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AlternativeRoot version 1, including all changes.
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Using something other than the recognised root nameservers for your DNS. |
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Alternative roots are of little value until a significant number of people have settled on one, which means the advocates of alternative roots frequently resort to mass-emailing sysadmins or installing scumware to try and get any significant number of people using them. |
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So far the most sucessful alternative root is new.net, which they claim works for almost 20% of the internet. That means it ''doesn't'' work for about the other 80% of the internet, which is pretty sad. |
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Another concern; most of the alternative roots are creating the same TLD's for themselves; .shop, .kids, etc.. in the unlikely event that someone starts advertising their website at 'http://www.pie.shop' and you even recognise it as an alternative-root domain (and most web users won't), which alternative root are you going to try? |
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Yet another concern; even if your own nameservers are configured to use an alternative root, there's still a very good chance your web traffic will pass through a TransparentProxy somewhere which doesn't. |
