[verdverm]

The comment is the start of a longer thread that is one data point in understanding how HNS would rather be adversarial than cooperative, from my perspective and others. Much of the crypto public speak is about replacing rather than enhancing existing systems. There is no join, only beat. They would likely become the very thing they desire to replace. It's human nature

[evbots]

There are factions within crypto, some think the "end of history" looks like crypto replacing centralized systems. others (like myself) think those systems are complements and simply alternatives in the marketplace.

As to being adversarial... ICANN was allocated 1.2% of the total HNS supply, and all existing TLD owners (at the time of the snapshot) can claim their TLDs on chain. The icann allocation is 5.8% of the current circulating supply.

i suppose there could have been a way to give ICANN a blank check to modify the handshake namespace in perpetuity, but i suspect that might either be technically unworkable or just made the whole venture pointless.