The new protocol changes how the Domain Name System , or the "phonebook of the internet," looks up human-readable websites and matches them to machine-readable Internet Protocol addresses . Right now, users' requests for websites are expressed in cleartext, meaning that ISPs can effectively see both the website address and the IP address that identifies the device from which a user browses.
whether adding encryption and proxies introduces performance degradation to response times or page load times, and so far results suggest the impact is minimal.