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It's centralized because owner of `.` can take over `kz.`

• acdha 5y ago
  That’s a pretty weak claim: ICANN is an international organization with substantial oversight. More importantly, they’re a soft power: if they tried to hijack .kz without a very good reason, they would very quickly not be running a globally-trusted root as ISPs around the world switched away.
  • DarylZero 5y ago
    Those are things you could say about any centralized system. They don't change the fact of the centralized structure.
    • acdha 5y ago
      Out of curiosity, what’s your proposed functionally-equivalent replacement?
      • DarylZero 5y ago
        I propose we replace all descriptions of DNS as decentralized with descriptions that call DNS centralized. Starting with your comments in this thread.
        • acdha 5y ago
          So … you don’t have an alternative?
          • DarylZero 5y ago
            Whether I have an alternative or not, I'm not going to get side-tracked by stupid questions about alternatives.
            • egberts1 5y ago
              Until then, you’ve been apparently getting side-tracked.
            • acdha 5y ago
              It’s not stupid to try to get you to explain the definition of “decentralized” you’re using to exclude a system commonly described as decentralized or get you to logically reason through the implications of that definition.
              • DarylZero 5y ago
                Yeah, I wouldn't have called it stupid, if that had been what you asked.