There was a project to do this at the DNS level: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Root_Server_Network http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Root_Server_Network I

There was a project to do this at the DNS level: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Root_Server_Network http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Root_Server_Network I don't know the history though or why the project was abandoned.