>Yes, indeed. Been there...done that. There have been at least 5
>serious attempts to create alternate root servers. They all have
>failed. Why do you suppose that is?
Oh, sure, in the past tense you refer to them as "serious" :-)
But to answer your question, a) because of the personalities
of the people spearheding them and b) the death-knell was Kashpureffs
redirection of internic.
When I moved up to Bannockburn, the local ISP used eDNS; I'd
never heard of them and they'd quietly switched. When Eug
went nuts and did his thing they switched back. It's a trust
thing.
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