Really interesting article. Fingers crossed for Israel’s domain name going the way of the dodo next.

There’s also the case (like we’ve had here with ml), where a wild-west domain gets returned to a country, in our case mali.

Ideally though the internet should be able to function without dns at all, especially without a US-based company in California (ICANN) having the final say in controlling the world’s domain names.

I wasn’t aware of the controversy, but I’m not surprised it’s yet another mess caused by the existence of the British empire.