[rasengan]

Switching away from ICANN will have a larger effect than a petition.

If you don’t support centralized authority over the DNS root, you can vote with your computer for a new DNS root controlled by the commons [1].

[1] https://www.handshake.org

[geofft]

Alternative DNS roots seem like the Internet equivalent of being a sovereign citizen. Sure, there are lots of things wrong with the government that everyone believes to be in power, but simply believing it to not be in power solves none of those problems, neither for yourself nor anyone else. You still need to interact with a world that believes in the government you don't believe in (or worse, believes in their own alternative vision of government).

[ryanlol]

It’d be cool if you included a disclosure when you advertise your cryptocurrency scheme.

[anonsivalley652]

There has to be a common namespace, even if it's controlled by a different entity that's transparent, fair and non-profit. Fragmentation of the namespace breaks the internet. Starting a parallel namespace doesn't address the core problem: the privitization/commercialization of names, registrars and the meta-registrar were all extremely bad ideas because publicly-traded companies are selfish, omnicidal and suicidal. All non-country TLDs should be run at actual cost by one entity that is a nonprofit. No more commercial registrars or meta-registrars; per-country registrars can do whatever they want. If people want to auction-off, buy or sell domains in a marketplace, that's their business. Let's not not solve the problem by avoiding it with phony solutions that cause more problems. Petitions won't work either.

[rasengan]

Handshake isn’t parallel, but instead, it’s a drop in replacement for ICANN that is controlled by the people. All existing TLDs continue to function as they did prior.

[zchrykng]

If it is an exact mirror with no differences, there is no reason to use it. Either it will start to diverge, or it is pointless for it to exist.

[rasengan]

It will absolutely diverge, although it’s probable that ICANN will likely continue to mirror the Handshake Naming System on their end.