Nations are allowed to determine who they ally themselves with. I mean, Russia keeps pushing their version of NATO. Does that mean the US is allowed to start invading countries, with that excuse?
Can we invade Russia because they are "moving to close to us"?
It’s a proxy war
It is?
So, Russia is a puppet of the US?
Imagine if the US didn't do a lend-lease deal to the USSR during WWII... There wouldn't be a Russia today. Most of Europe would be known as "Germany". And Japan would be ruling most of the Pacific.
You spin up a root zone for your tld, and you point your machines at it, and whomever else is interested in using your TLD. Or, you pay ~50K to ICANN, and meet some technical requirements (Last I checked, its like 8 zone servers, in 5 different geographical locations, response time maximums, etc).
Alternativley, you can also work with OpenNIC to do this, as they already have a number of OpenNIC resolvers, root zones. For this, your name servers you run need to meet their Tier I requirements.
but you do see Unborn Children as a “Cluster of cells” that can be murdered at a whim
Do you consider acorns to be trees?
And thats a good thing! It's known as a right to free association. You can choose who you hang out with, and who you do NOT hang out with.
Be your own admin. The option is there, and let's you control the admin.
So, what you propose just isn't feasible.
Who is the one who gets John Doe? First come, first serve, and never again available?
Nobody calls the internet federated because the switches transfer your data
Actually, a lot of people refer to the internet as federated, because most all of it is very decentralized, and independently managed.
Take IP routes... The BGP table is a giant exercise in federation. Any transit provide can blackhole your traffic, or just refuse to accept the announcements (ie, a lot of places reject North Korean BGP announcements, for example).
DNS is another example of a federated system, a number of countries operate the root servers, who merely hold pointers to where to get answers for a TLD, which in turns just provides answers on who can provide answers for a domain.
You can even create your own TLDs, and use them!
Its a giant, federated system. The apps sitting on top of it are not so much anymore.
Why can’t we just buy domain names for like 30 year periods?
You can. I think ICANN has agreed to limit it to 10 year maximum, to reduce domain squatting, though.
This is a HUGE problem in the IT sector... A lot of folks come up with "new, better, and more agile" systems for core tech, like DNS. What they fail to account for are all the lessons learned, and problems solved over the decades the system has been in use, and fail to understand a lot of the "complications" stem from people being complicated.
I somehow made the DNS system break someday, as I was able to “buy” an already-registered domain
This could happen on a blockchain, as well. All it takes is to control a majority of the miners. One reason I laugh when people claims btc or other ponzicoins are "distributed", since most miners are controlled by China at the moment.
fucking lol.
It was Germany, Japan, and Italy (And Russia initially) trying to conquer the globe. Nothing very "proxy" about that.