Random thought: I'd love to analyse a bunch of anime and get a count of how often schools are shown as being on a hill or high ground.
I get the feeling from my memory like 90% of the time when a school commute is shown it's always on a hill with the students arduously cycling or pushing their bikes in the morning, and then happily freewheeling all the way home.
I'd love to know:
A) is my memory actually correct
B) if my memory is correct, is this simply a media trope (as in, a visual metaphor for the morning journey being unpleasant while the time after school is freeing and relished) or are Japanese schools actually on hills a lot of the time.
The idea there should be some definitive, canonical domain for the Fediverse is somewhat at odds with the core tenents of the Fediverse itself - decentralisation, and no single point of ownership or control. And on that basis, we absolutely should not care about a particular domain, or assign any level of 'specialness' to it.
I understand your worry - that some 'bad actor' could buy the domain and do something anti-Fediverse with it and mislead the public, but my response would be to simply not worry. The strength of the Fediverse is that we are diverse and unbothered by whatever nonsense some centralised platform is trying to pull. We don't have a profit motive. We don't care.
People who want to find the real Fediverse will absolutely still find us, all on their own, regardless of who owns some random domain :)