Cloudflare takes over the world.
OS kernel includes cloudflared functionality, which routes traffic by domain name.
When you open a page in an app, the request is accepted by the local cloudflared, which uses AI models to decide where to forward the request.
The request leaves breadcrumbs along each node it traverses.
When the response is found, it follows these breadcrumbs in the reverse path back to the requester.
There are no addresses, just domain names and single-hop wireless links identified by ifindex.
Both RIPE and ARIN deadpooled, so is ICANN.
Each person gets assigned a free-for-life domain name at birth.
Additional domain names are charged at €7/year.
If you commit a crime, your domain names get deleted and you basically cease to exist.