I mean if it’s done in the right way and actually hosted by universities with high reputation: Oxford/Cambridge/Southampton (obvs not in Europe anymore but it illustrates my point) then I think it might be okay. Nothing wrong with making sure dns works in Europe if all other dns roots fail.

The implementation part will be tricky but not impossible. Heck ipv6 is still not rolled out and we actually need it. Do you think they will be able to do this faster?