> <i>The spendings will only grow as more and more similar court rulings are handed out (which without a doubt will come eventually). It will become near impossible to uphold a DNS service, and all small DNS resolvers will vanish.</i><p>I run one such <i>small</i> public DNS (DoH-only) resolver (primarily popular in countries where censorship is low to moderate), and know several other folks who do. Just the other day we were discussing the implications of this ruling, but coming from a country with dismal digital/internet freedom track-record, this made me sit back and contemplate for a bit (unblocking access to censored web properties <i>may</i> soon be a crime as the government here bids to criminalise VPNs):<p>I believe, the inevitable over-regulation and insurmountable legal threats are going to ruin it for the hobbyists who thrive at the fringes. Internet may soon go the way of the telecom industry. Controlled by a few, regulated to oblivion, with high barriers to entry.<p>I hope I am wrong.