Democratically run in this instances, means that users who join the OpenNIC mailing list, have the power to vote if they wish on any issue. Anything done within OpenNIC, is first discussed with the members, then motioned for a vote. The down side is, things move slowly, but thats the price you pay to have such system. If a new user has an idea, they can start a discussion and have that diea voted on, then acted upon. Everyone has a voice.

This is already in the works at; http://dot-p2p.org/index.php?title=Main_Page .p2p will soon be incorporated into OpenNIC.

I would like to encourage anyone interested in the alt-dns system like Peter, to join OpenNIC (http://www.opennicproject.org). It has great ideals, and is openly and democratically run. Anyone can join this great project and contribute to it. OpenNIC has been around since 2000, and is still going well!

This is the reason OpenNIC (http://www.opennicproject.org) was created. Sure it is not that popular, and sure no one not configured to use OpenNIC nameservers can not see their gTLDs. But their very existance is a great sign that some people are fed up with this U.S controlled DNS system! OpenNIC provide very fast DNS servers located all over the globe and by using it you are showing that you do not support the U.S controlled namesystem. Lets end this monopoly of the namesystem and start supporting the alternative roots! Only you can change they way things are, we are not forced to use the ICANN root servers.