I worked for a Registry (.coop) and sat next to the lead, interestingly we (poptel) also bid for .org back in the day and lost to the shysters that are selling

I worked for a Registry (.coop) and sat next to the lead, interestingly we (poptel) also bid for .org back in the day and lost to the shysters that are selling out Your right you have to have multiply redundant systems in four continents with everything running on HA kit with auto switch over diverse routing for power and data and I think hot standbys as well.