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Agreed. Blockchain is a convoluted solution, but it’s a solution for distributed consensus, if one feels that’s required. But in general I would argue the current root system has served us well and is open and free.

The world you describe, effectively with multiple roots, is coming. Russia have a switch (they’ve even tested it), to anycast out the root DNS IPs within the country, and block them externally. In theory this doesn’t make another “internet” (if IP space is still globally routable,) but in practice it does. Don’t be surprised if other countries follow suit (should they fail to leverage control of current infra via ITU or something.)