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Alternative DNS roots[1] will get increasingly popular if this sort of thing (and the DNS-based censorship ISPs are forced into) keeps going on unchecked (read: ICANN keeps sleeping). We may yet end up with an internet where DNS resolvers check multiple roots in descending order of preference, with the ICANN root last.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root



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