Scott Duncan
SOA (Start of authority) on DNS means you could send the request and Google could direct to Gay Porn. It is the MOST vulnerable part of DNS and set us back YEARS trying to solve the problem.
Namecoin is the first round of deployments that are designed to work around that. If NAMES worked like PERSONS you could have your OWN top-level domain, that YOU control.
...and Google will never be the same :D