I don't want to be aware of relationships between zillion different companies and organization just to be able to understand how much it will cost to map a stri

I don't want to be aware of relationships between zillion different companies and organization just to be able to understand how much it will cost to map a string to a number and what BS hoops I will have to jump through to keep that mapping "operational". It's totally absurd. DNS is a rotten system. It's rotten technically, politically and administratively. It has to be replaced by something distributed. Step #1 is to collectively admit this.