I think it would actually be (pseudo-)decentralized and you'd have to mine a blockchain node containing each domain, where its creators will have reserved at least 10% of its node pool to make sure they became billionaires if it took off.

Plus micropayments, of course :-)

Nono, it would run decentralized in blockchain with a mircropayment rent seeking solution to update records.

I laughed at first, then I cried, because sadly, it's true.

>config defined in YAML.

when I woke up today, I didn't really expect to be convinced that we live in a relatively good timeline, but...

Is there a standard config format for dns currently?

And it would make it really painful.

But we couldn't get rid of it because it papered over something important.

Ill try answer it myself with more questions. If ranking search results is such a hard problem perhaps dividing domain names should be a tad more complex than giving all the words to the first person to ask as long as they have the money. Perhaps A web directory of some kind but that still doesn't answer the riddle of ordering.