[toast0]

If every level is a root, then the word root means nothing. I guess you could say that the root servers point to the tld root servers that point to your domain's root servers. But then root server just means dns server.

I never mentioned registrars, only registries.

> Nobody here is on a regisrar that manages the TLD root servers.

I have a .is domain. For .is and some of the other country code tlds, you contract directly with the entity managing the TLD and its servers.

[Bender]

Are you secretly the admin of archive.is? He's made accounts on here before but they were all temporary. I want to believe he has an account that has been here a long time.

[toast0]

No, I live on an island, and is is a usps acceptable abbreviation for island ... I was trying to convince my spouse to leave yahoo mail for mail hosted on one of our domains by getting a domain that's less out there than enslaves.us, so I have islandname.is (well not literally that).

Tldr, a cool domain name isn't enough to make a switch happen.