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To some extent it is decentralized is it not? Other than a small list of who serves which TLD you should be able to find the canonical nameserver for any domain.

It should be more normal for people to have a DNS running locally perhaps.

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> To some extent it is decentralized is it not? No. Everything relies on the root servers, as recursive servers rely on them.

But you can run your own root servers.

And what good does that do?

Prevents some MITM attacks. You can also run your own TLDs where the registries are public enough.

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