It appears that Eliot Lear via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> said:
If people want to get away from country ownership, there is a somewhat experimental approach called GNU Name service. See RFC 9498. I don't pretend that this is a replacement for the current system, but if anyone wants to get to that replacement, maybe it's worth a read.
It's interesting up to a point, but it has the same scaling issues of any blockchain, or for that matter, of HOSTS.TXT. R's, John
Eliot
On 20.07.2026 02:26, Randy Bush via NANOG wrote:
A Texas court has suspended the .com domain of a Dutch porn site which doesn't have any business presence in Texas, because it doesn't comply with Texas rules about porn (which are extremely onerous):
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxt...
Clearly the US is not fit to manage top-level domains (other than .us of course) even though it ended up with them by historical accident. It worked for a while but now it's not working any more. Has anyone come up with any plan to solve this and make the DNS more neutral? first, this is far from new. and it is both a technical and political problem.
the dns is hierarchic, i.e. control is centralized. and centralization and hierarchy are foci for 'attacks'. but be patient, deleg is gonna solve everything :) ...