For most of its life, the Domain Name System has been the equivalent of the plumbing behind your toilet: you know it’s there, you know it works, and you only think about it when it breaks.
It was designed to be dull. Type “cats.com” and DNS figures out which machine somewhere in Nebraska is actually serving you the endless parade of whiskered memes.
The whole thing was meant to be invisible, a background hum of numbers quietly translated into names.
But somewhere along the line, a bunch of ordinary users decided the digital plumbing could double as a crowbar.
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