> If your domain is .com, and Verisign pulls it, you could be hosted on the moon, and still disappear. Ouch. I forgot about that. I guess one approach would be

> If your domain is .com, and Verisign pulls it, you could be hosted on the moon, and still disappear. Ouch. I forgot about that. I guess one approach would be to have the same name under several registries, trying to get decent coverage across juridictions where the physical nameservers are located. You could encourage people to choose a random (supported) top-level part (.com, .fr, .se, .co.uk, etc) in links, so a single DNS takedown would only hit a portion of links (which could then still be hand-edited to a working link). Network resilience and peering would also be an issue. A country can always filter you out I guess, a la Great Firewall. The sync issues would be interesting. Not sure what the people using the hosting see (a db? a filesystem?). Do-able, tho. (Off the top of my head, I'd go for a DVCS-like model, where it's fully peer-to-peer, automerge when we can, punt to a human when we can't).