So I wasn't the only one who read the headline as "read with a flashlight." :)

I use Google's DNS service, and the .org domain name appears to be seized, but the .com domain name still points to the owner's servers. However, Rojadirecta's Web site says that both their .com and .org domain names were seized, so I would assume it's only a matter of time before DNS records are updated globally.

That's probably why you're still able to access the Web site via one of the seized domain names.

Cheers.

there has to be more to the story. ive been with softlayer for few years now... and they don't seem the kind who would do this for competitive advantage. Wait until Monday evening before forming an opinion... http://www.sajalkayan.com/simplecdn-goes-down-a-case-for-using-multiple-cdn-providers.html

Well, glad it was all media misinformation. My position still stands on the first three points... still, Google is on my watchlist (unfortunately).

P.S. Those who criticized my wording... it was 6:34am for pete's sake... I hadn't slept all night :P

You actually gave me a little bit of hope that Google's philosophies haven't been thrown completely down the drain... Lets hope for the outrage theory.

I concur. The media often creates false illusions... particularly that this will allow for faster Internet connections than what users already have. Under that premise, go ahead... but as a Web developer, and a user who likes his smaller Web sites, no way.

Their motto has been thrown down the drain with the recent press releases, media coverage, and acquisitions. It's almost as if they're no longer the original company with their great philosophies.

1. Investment in Zynga, a company who's CEO admitted to using forms of fraud to ensure the success of his company.
2. Acquisition of Slide, another company whose success is mostly based upon their acknowledged violation of MySpace's Terms of Service.
3. Discontinuation of Google Wave, a product which despite relatively low adoption levels, is very powerful and useful for many users. It's basically as awesome as GMail, but for a more niche market.
4. Now, (even though talks began 10 months ago) an agreement which undermines Net Neutrality... not by lobbying against it, not by crossing their arms regarding the issue, but by planning to make an agreement between another private company, as if the Internet were owned by them (Google)?

I'm dumbfounded. Simply dumbfounded.

I've sincerely been a Google supporter since a little kid, and loved their products, services, and philosophies... and for most of this time, I ignored most critics, since Google actually kept doing good for the most part. Now, all of that has changed. I'm very disappointed in Google. :/

I'm the author of the blogpost and am inclined to reply. David, I don't mean any disrespect to OpenDNS. It is an awesome service and I too myself use it when nothing else works. I don't have anything against OpenDNS. If you for some strange reason want to discredit data from EC2 instances, please see the data from Thai and the Swedish ISP. Both are personal internet connections of people residing in the respective countries from their homes. Now that you have really discredited me, I have to work harder to get data from someone's home connection is US and UK (apparently you dont recognize data from other locations). Thanks, Sajal

Slashdot.org is serving static assets from the hostname a.fsdn.com which is served via Akamai CDN. I count 19 requests to http://a.fsdn.com/* on a single pageload of the homepage. These static files are currently served by a server within my ISPs network rather than some server on the other side of the globe... Alamai uses DNS routing.

Yes the website's CGI code *can* generate different URLs for images/static content based on IP but almost nobody does that, cause its very expensive to generate and makes server side caching useless. Almost all CDN services use DNS to figure out and point users to the nearest POP. Even slashdot.org is serving static assets from the hostname a.fsdn.com which is served via akamai. i count 19 requests to http://a.fsdn.com/* on a single pageload of /. which is currently served by a server within my ISPs network rather than some server ont he other side of the globe...