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The Global Cyber Alliance has given the world a new free Domain Name Service resolver, and advanced it as offering unusually strong security and privacy features.
The Quad9 DNS service, at 9.9.9.9, not only turns URIs into IP addresses, but also checks them against IBM X-Force's threat intelligence database. Those checks protect agains landing on any of the 40 billion evil sites and images X-Force has found to be dangerous.
The Alliance (GCA) was co-founded by the City of London Police, the District Attorney of New York County and the Center for Internet Security and styled itself "an international, cross-sector effort designed to confront, address, and prevent malicious cyber activity."
[...] The organisation promised that records of user lookups would not be put out to pasture in data farms: "Information about the websites consumers visit, where they live and what device they use are often captured by some DNS services and used for marketing or other purposes", it said. Quad9 won't "store, correlate, or otherwise leverage" personal information.
[...] If you're one of the lucky few whose ISP offers IPv6, there's a Quad9 resolver for you at 2620:fe::fe (the PCH public resolver).
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/20/quad9_secure_private_dns_resolver/
takyon: Do you want to give the City of London Police control of your DNS?
(Score: 2) by ledow on Tuesday November 21 2017, @01:20PM (1 child)
Yup.
And I think if DNSSec etc. drag their feet for much longer (might be "there", but it's certainly nowhere near mainstream) then something like a DHT DNS will pop up in its stead.
I can only think that's a good thing. Maybe then all the price-gouging TLDs will stop, and you will be able to have control of your DNS records without having to run a bucket of nameservers.
But until then, DNS has a long life ahead of it, I think.
And another public DNS server that's easy to remember isn't a bad thing. Whether or not you care about snooping.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @06:10PM
It already happened, and AFAIK is stillborn.
The idea behind it was you mined for credits which in turn could be used to register/renew domains. The limits on what you could register/renew related to how much coin you mined and as a result how much cpu/bandwidth/verification you provided to keep the rest of the network running smoothly.
A few people have talked about forking it, or re-implementing it for p2p anonymity network usage, but nothing has come from it yet.