Handshake, which is fulfilling the mission of Satoshi and BitDNS, has been growing rapidly. The decentralized root and certificate authority has recently been institutionally adopted by Namecheap, EnCirca, 101Domain and many other major DNS registrars. This has led ICANN to waging an attack against Handshake [1].
Interestingly, there have been other projects in the past that did not get attacked by ICANN [2]. It's pretty clear that blockchain is unstoppable, though, and with the adoption spreading so fast, ICANN doesn't have a choice but to fight.
As they say:
First the ignore you,
Then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win [3].
[1]
https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/buyer-beware-not-all-names-are-created-equal-24-11-2021-en[2]
http://domainincite.com/27261-icann-takes-the-lamest-swipe-at-namecheap-et-al-over-blockchain-domains[3]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3QbXMFjro0
