longlistener

From my understanding SOPA will make sites go dark by doing dns blocking. Wouldn't it make sense to convince even a small number of dns server operators to show support or solidarity?

It might be a hard sell, some dns server operators have pretty serious contracts and SLAs, but even getting a small handful of more flexible providers (Universities, non-profits, OpenDNS, maybe that one small part of Google, etc) would have a massive effect. Having them return the IP address of a single anti-SOPA site for all requests would cause huge swaths of the internet to become anti-SOPA in the eyes of the general public. Can you imagine if even one root server joined in?

There are some obvious downsides and issues, but I think those could be worked out creatively;

-- You may not want to disrupt non-http traffic (email, IM, WoW, etc), because the user would have no idea what went wrong. Not sure if theres an easy technical solution to hover this aspect.

-- The dns poisoning might last for days, so maybe that just means they are only going to do 30 minutes of true darkness in solidarity -- counting the residual dns poisoning as the day.

-- If it can be isolated to HTTP and you wanted to play nice, the single anti-SOPA site could redirect to the original site somehow (but I'm not sure how since dns is wrong).

Is this worth thinking about more or pursuing with dns experts or server operators?