Let's say I set up a site that's critical of an authoritarian government. I fund it with sales of merch and books and such.
I want to be anonymous - for obvious reasons - but if I have to register my details I can't be.
Also, accountability doesn't work without international authority. Some countries are more enthusiastic about accountability and the rule of law than others, and the ones who aren't can make money by selling "credible" domains to bad actors.
Of course after a while those domains will become less credible. But there are a lot of TLDs out there now, which makes the system very difficult to police without international cooperation.
In reality I can run a scam operation from a beach in Thailand, bank the money, shut it down, then run a very similar scam operation from a beach in Vietnam or Costa Rica. That won't change until there's some kind of international cyberpolice agency which will hunt me down across borders.
But then you get the anonymity problem.
Not simple, and no registration system will fix this.
Internationally and more broadly, you're totally right. In the subthread of Germany and their existing Imprint registration system though, we have the technology for making it so the imprints can't just be copied by scammers, or at least make it harder than it currently is.
