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If you are not already aware of it you might be interested in SplinterCon.
That being said this service seems like option, an alternative to existing solutions, so in that sense I don't believe they are splintering more.
Nah the whole point of the Russian federation copying China, five eyes nations getting butthurt about ech/doh and ultimately this European dns system that ensures name resolution is compliant with euro regulation is to preserve national interests in a multipolar world on the stage of the global internet.
You don’t gotta worry about icann or anybody else if you control the way the internet works for your citizens.
Maybe I'm missing something but the EU isn't mandating ISPs to use this DNS.
Here it's up to anybody, if they want to, to use this DNS instead of their ISPs, or NextDNS, or corporate Americans alternatives e.g. Google Public DNS or Cloudflare's. I don't think any average citizen, in EU or elsewhere, is directly hitting on ICANN's servers.
For now.
The whole stated point of this action is to make sure there is a dns provider who is required to be compliant with eu law.
Then entities who have a requirement to be compliant with some recordkeeping or framework of eu law (surprise, it’s all of them!) must use it.
Oh look here, because you ended up using eurodns for gdpr compliance you’re also required to turn over all records upon a lawful inquiry!
It just so happens that dns requests meet the minimum requirements for further search and surveillance, how lucky for me! Who could have ever expected this?
It’s easy to dismiss what I’m saying because it’s not happening at this very moment, but give it a few years and we’ll see liberals bemoaning the suffering of freedom loving peoples languishing under the great Eurovision firewall.
The instant any such report were to be made public anybody who cares about privacy would switch to another DNS.
I'm not saying it's not possible, or won't happen, but rather the barrier to switch is so low I have a hard time anybody would accept that "compromise".
Some minuscule portion of individual users may do so.
Organizations will implement eurodns as best practice for regulatory compliance. Providers will do so as well.
Almost every internet device uses whatever dhcp gives them as dns. When all the companies, government bodies and providers use eurodns to be compliant with the regulatory frameworks that allow them to continue operating in the eu that change will trickle down to users automatically.
It’s also worth remembering that surveillance is extremely normalized in the eu and eurozone compared to many other nations and areas. Of the vanishingly small percentage of users who are both aware of the concept of dns and choose to change it, a portion of them will accept and use eurodns.
Again, you may think I’m wrong but give it a few years.