One of Chromium's features creates a huge load on root DNS servers.
The Chromium browser, an actively developed open-source parent of Google Chrome and the new Microsoft Edge, has drawn serious negative attention due to a feature that was conceived with good intentions: it checks whether the user's provider is 'stealing' nonexistent query results for domains. The Intranet Redirect Detector, which generates fake queries for random 'domains' whose existence is statistically unlikely, is responsible for about half of the total traffic received by root […]
