[bwoodcock]

You could create a corporation with the rules (and problems) that you’re proposing, but in a cooperative the rules are fixed: one vote per organization. Your family .ORG domain gets the same one vote as Microsoft.ORG, as your kids’ soccer league, as the church down the street, regardless of how many domains they register.

Obviously a bad actor could try to game the system by pretending to be multiple organizations, but it wouldn’t buy them anything, because board members don’t have any rights that non-board-members don’t have, and the rights of the members to their financial interests are also guaranteed under law... the bird couldn’t, for instance, vote to pay themselves.

[nitrogen]

Is there a way to distinguish one organization registering 100000 domains (possibly using sub-entities) to get 100000 votes versus 100000 real separately controlled organizations?

Would controlling a large number of votes that way give them some kind of advantage?