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As someone knowledgeable on the subject, this was my journey:
Mozilla: "While HTTPS encryts web page contents, many middlemen can still see the URL of the sites you visit."
Me: "Yes, we know this is a problem. It has been for a long time. But if you're adding some kind of complex new solution, it's going to cause issues for..."
Mozilla: "We added public key encryption to DNS."
Me: "Oh shit, that's really smart, and it'll just work."
The brilliance of this move is public key encryption is old and widely supported and DNS is old and universally supported. I think we will see broad support roll out quickly on this one (at least compared to glacial scale of changes across the Internet.)
This should also be done for CA keys. If ACME can make DNS ownership the source of trust, just let me stuff my own root CA cert in a DNS record and skip the middle man.