Domain names only work as long as everyone uses the same roots. It's pretty crazy that whoever are trusted to tend the global registries make a killer profit wa

Domain names only work as long as everyone uses the same roots. It's pretty crazy that whoever are trusted to tend the global registries make a killer profit way above the cost to maintain the systems, especially by creating new subtrees that nobody asked for. Imagine if enough DNS operators get fed up with these shenanigans and establish a properly run root. Alternate roots used to be considered loopy and fringe, but the way things have been run with the new tlds, maybe there's not such a big difference left anymore...