@kitten thing is that works, but you cant get e.g. tls certs so we'd want to also have it with icann but the dns servers we could do ourselves of course
@kitten if the icann approves, we have the infrastructure and can guarantee to maintain it for the next 10 years and around $185000 evaluation fee which is lost if icann sais no. Which is quite a big responsibility which would disappoint people funding this. Also in case the infrastructure has some flaw where the icann sais nope to risky, you might be the target for blame.
That's at least parts of the considerations I made when thinking about maybe crowd fund a tld and decided against that.