Remember that attractive vine someone planted in the south over a hundred years ago. It had positive uses: erosion control, food for foraging animals, garden greenery, etc. But one morning the south awoke and Kudzu had covered everything from telephone poles to parked cars to slow moving old people. It went from beneficial plant to menace almost overnight.
Keep that picture in your mind as I tell you that Google is now offering free public DNS. That’s right, the service that tells the world where your domain name can find your server is now free and run by Google. No it isn’t April 1st. According to a post on their official Google Code Blog…
“Today, as part of our efforts to make the web faster, we are announcing Google Public DNS, a new experimental public DNS resolver.”
How long before G
oogle runs DNS for more than 50% of the web? With a $0 price tag it won’t take long. Imagine the day when Google DNS goes down. Can’t happen you say? Gmail has gone down more than a few times. The world can live without access to email for a day. Think of the potential loss if gDNS takes a dump. We’re not talking about one site going dark or 100 sites. It would be millions of sites from blogs to ecommerce. How long before an uh-oh moment at Google starts another recession?
But ignore me. I must be feeling under the weather or something. I like Google so I’m sure nothing like that would ever happen.
