Kind of wild that the DNS root zone is controlled by a bunch of under-the-radar people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_root_zone
Another consequence of the butterfly effect emanating from the Snowden leaks.
The 7 keys to the internet https://youtu.be/g4L0kxVIxGY
I fell down the web rabbit hole a couple of weeks back and it's honestly crazy what trust holds the web up. It just felt so foreign after cutting my teeth with blockchain and kinda skipping over the web learning
Same with root CA ceremonies — this should be MPC and trustless
I learned this (like many other obscure facts) from Sam (he runs two of the top-5 YT channels IMO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KDBpn8fW78
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN#/media/File:Icannheadquartersplayavista.jpg lol. you could drive over there and say hi
It is impossible to buy a domain without doxxing yourself to the US government. Satoshi bought bitcoin.org with the help of AnonymousSpeech. We now know that the establishments jail developers for building something for privacy, it'll be foolish to hand over our identities to ICANN