Open Root Server Network

ORSN was primarily started to reduce the over-dependence of Internet users on the United States and Department of Commerce/IANA/ICANN/VeriSign, limit the control over the Internet that this gives, while ensuring that domain names remain unambiguous.

It also helps avoid the technical possibility of global "Internet shutdown" by one party.

Paul Vixie, the main designer of BIND, the de facto standard software for DNS servers in UNIX-like operating systems, is a high-profile proponent of the ORSN.

[2] Paul Vixie is member of Security and Stability Advisory Committee of ICANN;[3] he served on the board of trustees of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) from 2005 to 2013, also as ARIN chairman in 2009 and 2010.

Anyone was able to choose to run an OSRN public DNS server and submit it via web form.