[aaomidi]

cTLDs do things very differently

[gmueckl]

But the authoritative root server set is maintained by ICANN, so they have ultimate control (for now) and can essentially dictate terms for all TLDs.

I wonder whether we wventually see some other power establish their own root servers which mirror only the parts of ICANNs DNS that are politically convenient to whoever does this.

[aaomidi]

So far root servers haven’t done stuff to ccTLDs

[jubilanti]

But they can if they want, which is what power is.

[aaomidi]

Eh, kinda? I mean they do that then countries will work around root servers. It’s basically MAD doctrine.