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What are the downsides of the current DNS arrangement? Could any be leveraged to make a serious challenge, to create something that was more independent of gove
by cturner 16y ago
What are the downsides of the current DNS arrangement? Could any be leveraged to make a serious challenge, to create something that was more independent of government?
Please shoot these ideas down:
- Find a very liberal nation, create a subdomain, and then subnet it. e.g. reassign.nz
- Create a wikipedia-like community around a subdomain arrangement. Start with the current world DNS, but immediately fork. Make decisions based on debate around a fixed set of values.
- rst 16y agoIt's technically possible for an alternate DNS root to delegate the standard top-level domains (.com, .org, .net, ccTLDs like .ca and .ly, etc.) to the ICANN-managed DNS roots, while supporting extra TLDs of its own. (Which is what was happening with the .42 TLD a few weeks back.) Of course, you're trusting the people running the alternate root not to mess with the namespace in ways that you don't expect...