Hi Vadim,
 
> What about e.g. people who have no choice?

I would argue for the choice to pretty much always be there. I am a small 
operator and as such, share your concern for ability to do certain things on 
the Internet. But managing a zone is not one of those things.

If you want to “do public DNS”, you purchase a domain name or request one for 
free (though the issuers of the latter have varying track records). Then you 
can manage it through the registrar’s web UI if it’s something simple (e.g. A, 
AAAA, MX, peppered with a bit of SPF/DKIM/DMARC) and unlikely to change over 
time, or tell it to point to your own DNS servers if your needs are more 
complex than that.

In terms of limitations of the latter, you do need a server with good 
availability, ideally 2 or more of them, and they have to have static IP 
addresses. But that’s not exactly hard to come by — any hosting provider that 
allows you to rent a VPS can hook you up with that.

When designing for DNS, I would argue that we should design *only* for DNS. 
What people (read: registrars) build on top of that is their problem to solve. 
Not wishing to give them a hard time, but they can also pitch in if they have 
valid concerns.

Met vriendelijke groet,
Michael De Roover

Mail: [email protected]
Web: michael.de.roover.eu.org
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