Nominet chooses civil war over compromise by rejecting ex-BBC Trust chairman
ICANN has failed us, Nominet has failed us, Public Interest Registry has failed us. We definitely need some better system where a single entity going rogue can&#x27;t affect millions of domain owners. I can see two approaches.<p>One is where we make it technically impossible for DNS operators higher in the tree to mess with us. That&#x27;s what the GNU Name System proposes with the &quot;hyper hyper local root&quot;, a petname system which supports delegation, to defeat censorship.<p>Another one is a domain name cooperative like CCOR.org attempted to build. So the organization serving our TLD is in fact operating transparently in the interests of its members paying administrative fees (think &lt;1$&#x2F;domain&#x2F;year)... not a business selling trying to make profits.<p>In my view we need both! Replace the corrupt pro-business ICANN with a democratic non-profit foundation, and at the same time make it technically harder for bad actors to mess with everyone.<p>Having a (domain) name on the network should be a free and accessible public service for all. They&#x27;re half a dozen lines of text (counting glue records and DNSSEC anchors) in a database, it&#x27;s OUTRAGEOUS we have to pay for that at all. In the early nineties, it used to cost money to host just a few kilobytes of information, and that&#x27;s why we introduced administrative fees for domain names. Why are we still paying &gt;10$&#x2F;year for less than a kilobyte of information hosting just so that shady businesses can make a profit?