A Chromium feature is responsible for nearly half of the traffic load on root DNS servers by issuing DNS lookups that often propagate up to root nameservers (Jim Salter/Ars Technica)

Jim Salter / Ars Technica:
A Chromium feature is responsible for nearly half of the traffic load on root DNS servers by issuing DNS lookups that often propagate up to root nameservers  —  Google is doing to DNS what D-Link once did to NTP.  —  The Chromium browser—open source, upstream parent to both Google Chrome …

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