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→Reasons Alternative Root Projects Have Developed
* In September 2001, [[Milton Mueller]] concluded that "competition among DNS roots should be permitted and is a healthy outlet for inefficiency or abuses of power by the dominant root administrator."<ref>[https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0109021 Competing DNS Roots: Creative Destruction or Just Plain Destruction?, Computers and Society]</ref>
* In September 2001, [[Milton Mueller]] concluded that "competition among DNS roots should be permitted and is a healthy outlet for inefficiency or abuses of power by the dominant root administrator."<ref>[https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0109021 Competing DNS Roots: Creative Destruction or Just Plain Destruction?, Computers and Society]</ref>
* Bottleneck in domain name industry due to ICANN's glacial pace of delegating new TLDs especially in its early years.<ref>[https://www.internetgovernance.org/2016/04/07/alternate-dns-roots-and-the-abominable-snowman-of-sovereignty/ Alternate DNS Roots and the Abominable Snowman of Sovereignty, IGP]</ref>
* Bottleneck in domain name industry due to ICANN's glacial pace of delegating new TLDs especially in its early years.<ref>[https://www.internetgovernance.org/2016/04/07/alternate-dns-roots-and-the-abominable-snowman-of-sovereignty/ Alternate DNS Roots and the Abominable Snowman of Sovereignty, IGP]</ref>
* Alternative DNS roots can allow for more democratic control of the Internet.<ref>[Bastick, Zach (2012). "Our Internet and Freedom of Speech 'Hobbled by History': Introducing Plural Control Structures Needed to Redress a Decade of Linear Policy". ''European Commission: European Journal of EPractice'' (15): 97–111]</ref>
===Against Governmental/Intergovernmental Control of the Internet===
===Against Governmental/Intergovernmental Control of the Internet===
* ORSN was founded out of concern over the U.S. government's control of ICANN.<ref>[https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/1045573 ORSN, Academic.com]</ref>
* ORSN was founded out of concern over the U.S. government's control of ICANN.<ref>[https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/1045573 ORSN, Academic.com]</ref>