Hijacking top comment, they won't take out dns, they will take out ICANN, created by Bill Clinton in 1997, it owns/regulates all dns systems. It is privatized now and located in LA. Everything will fall except satellite backed services. That includes all fiber based cellphone towers. If they do attack dns it will be from the inside, and I could see Google, Microsoft, neustar (Durham indicted owner) all shutting down there's which would reck havoc worldwide.
If the attack is only on the DNS level then yes (because .onion is not a real TLD and doesn't use DNS), but there are plenty of other ways to shut down the Internet (for a group of websites, or to a group of people).
Hijacking top comment, they won't take out dns, they will take out ICANN, created by Bill Clinton in 1997, it owns/regulates all dns systems. It is privatized now and located in LA. Everything will fall except satellite backed services. That includes all fiber based cellphone towers. If they do attack dns it will be from the inside, and I could see Google, Microsoft, neustar (Durham indicted owner) all shutting down there's which would reck havoc worldwide.
Is this why Trumps new venture is to create a new AWS like service?
No, this would be at a much lower level than that. I'm not 100% sure ICANN actually controls all of the root servers though.
Will dark web still work via tor?
It should yes. Tor does not use DNS.
If the attack is only on the DNS level then yes (because .onion is not a real TLD and doesn't use DNS), but there are plenty of other ways to shut down the Internet (for a group of websites, or to a group of people).