It is as decentralized as you can get. Dns is the entire foundation of decentralization, any more and you get into schizo hyperprivacy protocols.

It's federated, not decentralized. For decentralized you need something like https://ens.domains/

Are there any well established definitions for these terms as separate?

Yes? Basically half of them? Some people put federation in decentralised group, some say only distributed is decentralised.

In short: centralised = 1 owner/operator, federated = many semi-autonomous operators to choose from, decentralised/distributed = everyone's an operator on the same level.

With DNS you still have groups of operators who can tell you what to do and they have the main agencies on top of that. I subscribe to the "it's not really decentralised" view.

Source: It came to me in a dream.

Alternatively, do a quick search for "decentralised vs federated" yourself. People here don't owe you basic explanations.

It's not that I am dumb and I am asking for help with info. I'm questioning the existence of this, there is no reliable source because these are not standard terms in any discipline.

It's not that you are not giving me source because your time is valuable and I'm dumb. It's because there is no source and these concepts don't have any standard rigorous definition.

https://www.google.com/search?q=decentralized+vs+federated

Google gives me trash. These are trash concepts, nothing written by academics or professionals or standard textbooks, or proceedings of magazines or publications.

Just blogs and cryptonerds (with different definitions).

So, it's not as decentralised as you can get, you just personally don't like decentralisation?

*Without descending into a madness that decentralizes your very thought process and identity

The network is decentralized, but each domain still has a single registrar, making the service you (domain owner) receive very centralized. If that one registrar misbehaves or is unresponsive, you're out of luck.

You can switch registrars if you want.

This requires cooperation from your current registrar, and involves the registry operator for your TLD which is again a single entity.

You are consistently objectively wrong on the facts. So your subjective take that dns is decentralized is again wrong.

You can choose different TLDs. Don't like VeriSign's .com? Go with a country tld or make your own tld. Also tld are regulated it isn't even an independent private entity.

Finally switching registrars does NOT require cooperation of the losing registrar, but of the upstream DNS.

The sane take is just don't chose a meme registrar from a bullshit country just because it sounds like something else.