I would be glad to use cloudflares domain registry. But anyone else worried that to much of the net is already tied up with them
I've never thought that it had to be covert or even nefarious to be a MITM. It's a man-in-the-middle if it's sitting between two endpoints talking to each other and intercepting the data stream.
For instance, I proxy all of my web traffic in order to be able to filter my HTTPS streams. It's neither covert nor nefarious, but is still a man-in-the-middle. It's just not a man-in-the-middle attack.
Yes, and I'd add AWS and Google to the count, albeit for slightly different reasons.