What is need is a mainstream movement to embrace crypto as a fundamental human right.
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Sidebar: The article is part of "Passcode" - a field guide to security and privacy from The Christian Science Monitor: http://passcode.csmonitor.com
And, only one company will sign everyone's public key, because regular users just want to delegate everything to a familiar name. Then we will need another revolution, an underground network of public key signers. With names like 51GNpnk and TheRealBob. One of TheRealBobs will come smoke a joint with you in your parent's basement, and sign your key for $5, so that you can get into the Minecraft party on the weekend.
In blockchain-style naming, there's no UDRP, and if you can't get jurisdiction over the particular name-holder, you can't get much joy from litigation either. There's no registry or registrar to whom a court order could be issued.
That has advantages and disadvantages from the end user's point of view: sometimes the legal system would have undermined uses of names that they wanted to make (as in the case of censorship by seizing or canceling a domain name, or transferring it as a punishment for violating an unrelated law), while other times it would have protected them from confusion and fraud.