USA and DNS

Well for starters, there are 13 root DNS servers. So to disable root DNS availability you would need to dismantle all 13 of those, which are, needless to say, heavily secured by incredibly fancy firewalls, redundancy, clustering, high availability, fail over, load balancing, multiple locations, tons of up-to-the-minute backups, walls, weapons, Chuck Norris himself, etc.

Now, if you want to fantasize about them 13 root servers going down at the same time, well, there are still hundreds if not thousands of DNS servers with nearly identical information, a lot of which are available to everyone looking to use them (some good examples are Google or OpenDNS). So even if all 13 root servers and their backups and mirrors and Chuck Norris were all destroyed forever, it would simply lead ISPs, web hosting companies, data centers and Network Admins to change their DNS preferences to any of these left over server, some of which would quickly become (whether officially or unofficially) the new root DNS servers.

As to bringing down the whole internet, well, I think as long as there is a man standing with the will, knowledge and resources to perpetuate it, it will never happen.

Thanks - However Im asking if the USA "intentionally" wanted the internet down. - THe Government directed the DNS to be brought down. - Could it do this via DNS pull down? - thanks again. - Could  other Countries overcome this?