This is what DNS is:
The Domain Name System assigns servers that take a "name" like google.com, and translate it into machine-speak (actual IP) because names are easier for us to remember than a long list of numbers. What you type in your address bar is delivered to a DNS server which turns it into numbers, and then sends you to your destination. (The DNS server has a "directory" that holds all the names and matches them to a number.)
The government will do this:
When I.C.E. (the body responsible for 'seizing' domains in US) takes control of a domain, they change the translation the DNS server makes, and it sends you somewhere else...like their big splash page.
Blockaid does this:
There are a number of public DNS services available, such as those offered by Google and OpenDNS, but they won't help if a domain has been/is seized. BlockAid will. They will send you where you're supposed to go instead of where the government wants to send you.
What the government will do is just redirect you...they can't actually seize sites without a court order...that will hold true even if all this junk eventually passes, especially if the sites aren't in the US. (They will be able to redirect non-US sites). Under the way the laws are written, it will be illegal to even talk about the IP addresses of the blocked sites, and search engines will be forced to take away any reference to them. At the moment, you can get IP addresses at sites like
this. I noticed it wasn't right for Project 1999 though...so I dunno.
EqEmu is: 67.23.190.71
You can type those numbers in your addy bar just like a name, and viola!
Good?
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