I’m more scared of TLD owners either changing ownership of domaine and/or price gouging than either of those things - if your TLD decides to 10x the cost of your domain, or sell the domain to your competitor, what are you gonna do?
There should be a way to abuse the tor network as a dns into the clear web.
Worthy attempts to resolve Zooko's triangle are going to require us to have trust in some stack, and it's hard to decentralize that appropriately. Namecoin may be one of the few examples of a b-word worth considering here. Ultimately, however, if the workers are to own the means of productions, there is no substitute for using and owning keys (and if that means people have to rely upon those they know and trust to assist them in this, then so be it). I don't predict that convention will arise in general, but I do prescribe it.
Still, TLD registries know that if they make domains unattractive enough, some other identifier will come along.
‘Other identifiers’ only happen at scale. 1000x the cost of fortune 500’s, or a single tld.
For example, the name ycombinator.com has some value on its own, but I think you won't contest that the vast majority of the current value of that name arose only because a popular community was ran on this domain name for decades, and if hackernews was instead run on scombinator.com or whatever, then the value of ycombinator.com would be just a fraction of what it currently is.
We also don't force auction land off every year, because the costs (both financial and social) of that churn and insecurity are way worse than the gains from the resources being allocated for maximum economic value.