Would it be possible to completely do away with centralised DNS roots? Some kind of peer-to-peer name resolution system might be viable, theoretically at least.

Would it be possible to completely do away with centralised DNS roots? Some kind of peer-to-peer name resolution system might be viable, theoretically at least... It would be asking for (at least an initial period of) anarchy, mind. Perhaps doing away with the "one name, one website" paradigm of DNS altogether and using something like http://yacy.net http://yacy.net to find the relevant IP address for the site you want could work...