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That would probably be ICANN[1], and most authoritative name servers follow the policies set out there as the guiding committee is part of ICANN[2].

There are alternative DNS roots, though. I participated in running one myself for a time.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_name_server#Root_server_s...

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Thanks, I was thinking about ICANN, but i'm a bit tipsy and didn't want to discredit my point by misspelling an organization. Yet, this still proves my point, the internet, as we are experiencing it today, is based on different orgs simply playing nice by some rules established by a central authority. What if they stop doing that? What if the central auth is going to have something against you?

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