DNS is far less of a single point of failure and more decentralized than cloudflare. Nameservers can and are operated redundantly via simple, resolver-side round-robin scheduling and the TLD servers should have longer TTLs that allow plenty of caching. The rootzone even has anycast thanks to using UDP. Take a moment to look at DoH and laugh.

You can also also register your domain on multiple TLDs.

DNS worked just fine throughout this. You're barking up the wrong tree.

https://handshake.org is pretty interesting.

I just recently ran across this. I wonder how much performance would be degraded.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7530014/authors#authors

> Unlike previous DNS replacement proposals, D 3 NS is reverse compatible with DNS and allows for incremental implementation within the current system.

DNS is decentralized, it's just not when everyone goes with one big service.

It might be decentralized, but how do you actually get a .com domain name without going through some kind of corporate gatekeeping or paying a fee?

I'm down for passing around a GPG signed hosts2.txt file. Let's get started.