The only way things stay online is: 1) Your registrar ( hence people now using pub / top / am / az / and trying like hell to buy a TLD. Jim should honestly find a way to obtain .kun but Good Shot in Hell pulling that off. 2) Data Center - Physical colocation 3) Upstream Provider - Typically in the past within the US Cogent was the most lenient here but now it's far better off to try and find obscure locations to base from. The big thing now is that the internet is more controlled than ever.  We can bypass needs for DNS systems which would negate a need for Domains in any way shape or form - but people would need to grow to be savvy enough to sort all of this out.