[larkeith]

We badly need a good replacement - ICANN has recently been making it abundantly clear how poor a choice it is to rely on an opaque, unaccountable centralized entity for something as crucial as DNS.

Whether or not you agree with their decision, this whole saga fails to inspire confidence in their processes and long-term neutrality.

A particularly concerning quote:

"Those PICs were published months later but ICANN went out of its way to make sure they weren’t noticed: it published them on a sub-site that requires people to register to access information, instead of using its normal public comment process, and it made no public announcement about the publication, despite promising to do so."

[duckmysick]

Reminds me of the passage from the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy about the demolition notice:

"But the plans were on display..."

"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."

"That's the display department."

"With a torch."

"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."

"So had the stairs."

"But look, you found the notice, didn't you?"

"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying Beware of the Leopard."

[ohashi]

ICANN is a captured organization and hasn't been acting in the best interest of the general public for ages. It needs to be reformed or replaced. The fact 'staff' make decisions and the board skirts any responsibility is a travesty. Their model of governance is a failure, they don't actually listen to people or build consensus. They operate in the shadows and even when it gets noticed, they ignore the public backlash.

[csense]

What about [ENS](https://docs.ens.domains/)?

[xur17]

https://handshake.org/ ?