[mangodwango]

This is something that can absolutely be decentralized. Problems aside namecoin shows that it can be done. The entire domain name system needs to be overhauled, central certificate authorities need to be avoided.

The internet in general is infrastructure, and protocols that are increasingly controlled by governments and organizations in bed with governments.

[ulrikrasmussen]

That also has its downsides though. For starters, it would no longer be possible to take down domains used for controlling botnets.

[neop1x]

That's a similar nonsense as is the broad-scale surveilence to prevent terrorism. Botnets can already build a decentralized store of IP addresses, bypassing public DNS completely. Centralization makes some people, organizations or state just too much powerful.

[asdfasgasdgasdg]

Intelligent botnet authors will switch to the decentralized options once they are widely available and stable. While I think there's limited benefit to decentralization for any use case I care about, I don't think centralization is going to stop this trend in the medium term.

[Karrot_Kream]

The GNU Name System https://gnunet.org/en/use.html already has a distributed DNS-like system built out.

[Aeolun]

This does not look like something my grandma would use.

[Karrot_Kream]

I don't think she has to. As long as your ISPs run GNS themselves, and offer you DNS via DHCP, then you can just forego the ISP DNS server and drop in your own local GNS. Mount .com and the other TLDs you want from direct from ISP off their pubkey, and overwrite the TLDs you don't care much for.