Short answer, Yes .. provided you don't care if anyone can see it. Take a look at what NEW.NET tried with DNS back in the day. Cheers, Michael Holstein Cleveland State University ________________________________________ From: NANOG <nanog-bounces@nanog.org> on behalf of stovetop 202 <stovetop_202@yahoo.com> Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2014 7:45 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: short, two part question ICANN Vs. The World Topic: ICANN Vs. The World. The question at hand is.. Do countries/businesses have to affiliate or utilize any of those services provided by ICANN other than the assignment of an IP address? And can you get away with LAN/CAN/MAN stand-alone systems [instead of utilizing DNS-via-ICANN]?? Example: Is it legal to cut off those DNS systems and loop in backwards? (instead of bidirectional). ** I don't want my city/schools/other systems hooked into the World Wide Web. // someone let me know when you get a chance.