&gt; Shall something bad happen - you&#x27;ll lose your identity and will have to seek it back in a court.<p>That&#x27;s true for every way to prove identity. For most use cases, it&#x27;s a feature that you can get it back in court. See also &quot;identity theft&quot;.<p>&gt; that juridical sense isn&#x27;t international. There are countries that seize or undelegate domains they can reach at whim.<p>In a way it&#x27;s very international. It has never happened in the history of the Internet that one top domain organization has undelegated domains under another top domain.<p>It is true however that you are always subject to your country&#x27;s laws. But this system is international in a way that none of your other identities are: You can easily get a domain in another country, and that ownership is exclusively managed by that country&#x27;s laws.<p>&gt; I really don&#x27;t want to trust any other entity but myself to be a source my identities,<p>That doesn&#x27;t make for very useful names.<p>I may assert that I am Barrack Obama. You will most certainly not agree. That limits the usefulness of self-asserted identitites. See also &quot;Zooko&#x27;s Triangle&quot;.