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Peter Sunde attempting to create p2p alternative to ICANN

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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 18:04

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sam_code4u

Everyone at some point gets frustrated with technology and the services that govern how that technology works. Most of us put up with those frustrations where as Peter Sunde, formerly of The Pirate Bay, tends to act on them with far reaching consequences.

According to Sunde’s Twitter feed he has been suspicious of ICANN for a long time. The non-profit corporation is tasked with managing both the IPv4 and IPv6 Internet Protocol address spaces as well as handling the management of top-level domain name space including the operation of root nameservers.

Sunde has lost a domain in the past because of the way ICANN acted. It was taken without any consultation on their part, instead the organization relied on information from recording industry group IFPI to change the domain ownership. But it seems for some reason his frustration has come to a head recently, and he has put a call out for help to create a competing root server. The tweet pronouncing this read:

Hello all #isp of the world. We’re going to add a new competing root-server since we’re tired of #ICANN. Please contact me to help.

His plan involves the creation of a DNS root server to begin with that uses peer-to-peer technology and is secure. It will be quite basic, but open and secure which is what Sunde wants. Beyond that we don’t know how serious of a project this is, or if Sunde is just venting due to current problems he’s having with an ISP or ICANN specifically.

Keep an eye on his Twitter feed for more information.

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 18:11

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LionKiller

Thanks For Information Update..