People keep saying that, but is the DNS system really broken? ICANN’s a benign mess, yes they charge a tax, no they don’t do a good job, they aren’t efficient, but they are somewhat accessible and slowly respond to changes. It’s a dispute system that’s allowed us to have a single unified addressing system that works on all internet connected devices and in almost all protocols and operating systems. Even all blockchain projects use dns to bootstrap their way in to finding DHT nodes.

What I think people don’t like is governments can seize domain names and there’s a legal trademark dispute system. The trademark system is also slow and a pain in the ass, but it also mostly works. What about seizing domain names? I mean yes, it’s possible, but people can just setup new domains. The internet can’t exist entirely outside the global political system of nation states and international bodies who derive their legitimacy from nations. Honestly, ICANN as a regulatory agency for the internet, does amazingly little, and that’s a good thing.

DNS it works, and is mostly harmless.