“Um, with apologies, no we haven’t [discussed ways to work around TLD/Registrar oversight].”
Palmer was discussing that with me. I assumed he was with you too. Sorry if your focus was elsewhere.
The best way is merely for the US to back out. That probably means creating our own with other countries doing the same with some level of cooperation. The systems needs to evolve to handle the capacity being used, but centralized government isn’t the answer, as you seem to agree.