as far as structural outages go, this FB thing is relatively minor. a few hundreds of millions of dollars lost at most. if a similar outage hit AWS, cloudflare, akamai, etc, no one's credit card would work. i expect the losses would be in the billions if not trillions.

INTERNET FOLKS: a speculative question for you. currently, almost all internet users share the same DNS, providing global consensus on naming (which names are valid, what they map to, etc). for how much longer will that be the case?