> It has never happened in the history of the Internet that one top domain organization has undelegated domains under another top domain I also haven't heard o

> It has never happened in the history of the Internet that one top domain organization has undelegated domains under another top domain I also haven't heard of such thing. I have heard of few others, though. US had seized a few .com domains, and I doubt they cared about citizenship of registrar. Russian government had requested un-delegation of few .ru ones, and blocking any access (ISP-level) to many others across the world. Australian .oz ccTLD was moved to .oz.au. Yugoslavian .yu ccTLD is gone and doesn't exist anymore. It was once feared that .su would also begone, but it had survived for some weird reason, although - who knows - for how long? I think a few email accounts I had registered in early '00s are long gone, some with the very email providers. But I still have my old private key I've created a decade ago. That's what I know about the credentials. YMMV, of course, and - sure - I know a few peers who had lost their keys. > I may assert that I am Barrack Obama Sure, and while I suppose it's not your name, I bet there is not a single Mr. Obama in this world. Zooko's triange is fine, identity system doesn't need unique names - a natural one doesn't have those anyway. We don't require worldwide login (username) uniqueness, right? If for some reason we want to know it's real US President Obama who wrote a message or signed up on a site, we need an assertion on his identity from US Govt, don't see any issues with this. And, duh, I bet he has a few tamper-resistant tokens that hold some signed keys, to sign his mail and whatever. I would be very surprised if he doesn't.