What ISP's out source their DNS? If your ISP can't even take car of that small a detail, find someone new. Anyhoo, the only thing I ever heard of akamai being used for was serving up content like scifi.com's Seeing Ear Theater and whatnot. How does it affect me that google.com can't find IP addresses? All I need from them is the URL. DNS happens on my (ISP's) end.