26–27 Oct 2024
Clarion Congress Hotel Prague
Europe/Prague timezone

Is Big DNS Taking Over?

27 Oct 2024, 14:50
5m
Tycho/Kepler Rooms (Clarion Congress Hotel Prague)

Tycho/Kepler Rooms

Clarion Congress Hotel Prague

Freyova 33 Praha 9 ⁠-⁠ Vysočany 190 00 Česká republika
Lightning talk Main Session Session 3

Speaker

Farzaneh Badiei (DigitalMedusa)

Description

Digital Medusa is investigating global DNS usage trends, including centralizing DNS resolver services. While the research is ongoing, we have published a preliminary report to receive feedback on reasons for DNS resolver usage trends, the use of open-source software for DNS resolvers, and the creation of a global regulatory DNS blocking tracker.

Read the report: https://digitalmedusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Upload-DNS-Resolvers-First-Draft-October.pdf
Some preliminary results:
Public DNS services have traditionally offered Internet users in certain parts of the world better performance and greater privacy and accessibility.
Since 2022, the use of public DNS services has halved in many regions.
Study seeking to learn reasons for this drop in usage and global regulatory tracker of government requests to block domain name resolution.

Talk duration 5 Minutes (no Q&A)

Primary author

Farzaneh Badiei (DigitalMedusa)

Co-author

Mr Sebastian Castro (.IE)

Presentation materials