Learn about the DNS and how the internet works

The internet is ruled by concentrated corporate power.

I’m here to talk about what happens when you type in “oatmealdream.com”. Why Oatmeal Dream? Because perhaps you want to start a website about the dreams you have about Oatmeal. It’s going to be huge. There are major business implications for the oatmeal and sleep businesses. The first thing you do is check if your domain name is available. You type it into a web browser. The web browser market is dominated by Google with one of its flagship products Chrome. There are competitors but most people use Chrome. Only heathens and people required by business contracts us Edge, a product built and maintained by Microsoft. This does not mean the Chrome web browser is better than Edge. It just means for whatever reason, most people use Chrome. I use Chrome lol.

The U.S. Justice Department (part of the Executive Branch of government) is suing Google based in Mountain View for having a monopoly on the search engine market. Chrome is one piece in Google’s domination of the freeking “internet search” market. They dominate the channel by which our country accesses information. You can read the full compaint by the government in this legal document. It’s another example of Concentrated Corporate Power in America.

Anyway, why does AT&T page come up when I type in “oatmealdream.com”? If you type it in to your web browser (whatever you use) you’re likely to get something different. This is because of the Domain Name System (DNS) that powers the internet as we know it.

What is the Domain Name System (DNS)?

The above header is an example of an H2 tag that is important for search results. Google craws the web to look for HTML structures like H1, h2, H3, h4 and other HTML tags. Google is even launching it's own format tomake the web easier to index and control. It's called AMP. There's an entire industry of corporations, consultants and employees dedicated to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) where companies pay billions to Google and Facebook…