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by kowabungalow 435 days ago
Hence 'for .us'. The trouble with this form of pedantic is that the nicer way to interpret the misunderstanding is that the pedant is ignorant either of language or the structure of dns.

"He runs the Internet routers for our company." -> "Your company doesn't run the Internet" -> wtf?
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fluidcruft 435 days ago
It was a clarification that GoDaddy's ability to fuck everything up isn't quite as broad as suggested.
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jsjohnst 435 days ago
It actually didn’t help at all. Read the part quoted again, OP specifically indicated .us, not “root zone”. The registrar for .us (GoDaddy) is in fact the “root dns for .us”
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AStonesThrow 435 days ago
> The registrar for .us (GoDaddy) is in fact the “root dns for .us”

“root DNS” has a very specific meaning, and you’ve misused it again.

Root DNS means ‘.’ and only ‘.’ There is no other “root”. That’s why it’s called “root” to be unambiguous.

In fact, in recent history, the root name servers use their own domain for convenient forward DNS resolution: ‘root-servers.net’ GoDaddy doesn’t run this either... Surprise, surprise!

> Your company doesn't run the Internet

Yeah well as a fragment, the statement makes sense, more or less, because there’s no “term of art” being abused there in your reductio ad absurdum.

Indeed you can run your own private root DNS, if you don’t want to interact with the real Internet, but your private roots are different from your private/hidden/split-horizon TLD. Another thing GoDaddy isn’t running. Did you know that GoDaddy doesn’t run news.ycombinator.com? Not even a subsidiary!

GoDaddy doesn’t run any “root DNS”, and they never have: period, full stop. [Pun intended]

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immibis 434 days ago
The whole point of a tree is that every node is the root of its subtree.
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jsjohnst 433 days ago
Exactly!
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fluidcruft 435 days ago
The original clarification was perfectly fine to and arguing about the correction is reply-all-unsubscribe line noise. There was confusion, it error corrected, move on.
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jsjohnst 433 days ago
Yet you chose to reply-all-unsubscribe line noise further. Maybe take your own advice and move on bro.
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fluidcruft 433 days ago
Necromancing an over two-day old thread to ask someone to move on is a bit rich lol.
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jsjohnst 433 days ago
Yet you still reply again! Guess you put zero value in your own advice, got it!
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