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What is to prevent an open source DNS server to be deployed all around the world by various people? And browser makers would just add it to the list of servers once it gets big enough.

Until then, people could download a program or instructions that would add it, similarly to Google's DNS or OpenDNS

Except it would not use the regular DNS system on the back end, but supplement it with its own rules eg not taking a domain offline when registrars do.



Nothing except inertia. There are many alternative root operators. It's just that none of them have managed to convince enough people to use them.




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