@MerlinJStar@weirder.earth Ahh, I get what you mean. So the problem with the domain name system is that it's *mostly* decentralized, but at the top of it all is ICANN. So whatever you do, ultimately you have ICANN to answer to, even if you run your own registrar.

Combined with the broad availability of existing registrars, and well-defined transfer procedures between them (+ ICANN to basically play registrar cop), it means that it tends not to be at the top of the list of concerns - only marginal improvement is possible.

(There are no obvious ways to fully decentralize the domain name system either, 'decentralizing naming systems' is basically one of the unsolved computer science problems)

I think that if a larger cooperative tech movement were to get off the ground, cooperative registrar services would probably appear - but I doubt it's anyone's top priority right now, given all the other things where big tech company dependency is proving to be more immediately problematic.

I actually suspect that the *hosting* side is more likely to gain people's attention early, and then especially the AWS-style hosting stuff, which is very vendor-locked right now.