[samworm]

Are Google "hijacking DNS to sabotage projects like Namecoin?" - No. I doubt the people working on this give any thought to Namecoin, the user-base overlap is approximately 0%. They're doing this because they think it will improve performance.

[itistoday2]

Your reply seems almost identical to pjscott's, to which I already responded (so my response to you is the same): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6949269