The risk analysis of the domain name registration of GoDaddy

According to the Southern Metropolis Daily reported that the domestic well-known movie Database website time Network was closed the reason finally has the answer, time network closure is said to be related to the yellow, million network staff said, million network is the Beijing Communications administration of the notice, said time network "spread pornography, obscenity", and thus stopped the analysis of the domain name, the staff also said, The notice does not explicitly restore the resolution of the deadline, "If you want to recover, you must find the Beijing Communications Authority or the Ministry of Communication." ”

October 15, 2010, Time Network is due to its domain name provider to stop the resolution of its domain name is forced to close, its domain name status by the query displayed as "Clienthold" (pause resolution), resulting in the time network is still inaccessible.

This involves a problem, is the use of foreign domain name registrar godaddy domain name registration can avoid this clienthold risk. We know that the purchase of GoDaddy on the domain name is indeed able to avoid the domestic cumbersome domain name audit mechanism, regulators can not manage through domain name registrars, can only find the site's host to manage, this to a certain extent to avoid prolonged site interruption, site administrator in a short time to deal with the need to delete content. But some people will worry, GoDaddy registered domain name can not be filed, this with the state management domain name requirements of the real names, the regulatory department will not be disturbed in order to the domestic market and the normal operation of the domain name real names, shielding GoDaddy server, to prevent GoDaddy in the domestic development.

According to my opinion, this possibility is not big, GoDaddy is the global domain name registers the first service provider, the global market share reaches 18%, if the shielding GoDaddy, directly causes the global One-fifth website to be unable to visit, thus causes the domestic public opinion pressure, The stakes in this regard are unlikely to be considered by the regulatory authorities.

In addition, according to my observation, the number of GoDaddy DNS server is very large, if shielding DNS server, will inevitably have a slip through, a DNS server is blocked, can be replaced by another DNS server, or even, we can set up the use of Third-party DNS servers, For example, Zoneedit, dnspod, etc., unless you can use a means to screen all foreign DNS servers, the DNS server shielding is basically not feasible.

So is it feasible to block all offshore servers? If so, basically all foreign sites are inaccessible, equivalent to a local area network, this possibility is extremely low.

At present, the major domestic portal sites, such as Baidu, NetEase, Sohu, etc. are using foreign domain Name service provider for domain name management, which also illustrates the stability and reliability of foreign domain name servers stronger than at home, although there have been the case of Baidu domain name was black, but million network has also been hijacked Google domain name of the bad precedent, Explain its security technology also does not pass, overall speaking, foreign domain name service provider security than domestic better, domestic commercial web site in order to circumvent the clienthold risk, the use of foreign domain name service is a more secure program.