This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks 

 Seems like pkdns relies on mainline DHT for censorship resistance. What are the censorship resistant properties of mainline DHT?

It also requires users to use a particular DNS resolver, so it won't serve my website to 99% of internet users who don't know how / will never change their DNS resolvers.

But we gotta start somewhere, and I'm not sure any other solution is any better place to start. Maybe if this or another decentralized system takes off, major DNS servers will start to support it and it'll become more usable.

It bothers me that we have this beautifully censorship resistant thing, the bitcoin blockchain, and we still haven't figured out how to leverage that to get us out of the quagmire of centralized power that is ICANN/DNS. I know about nomen but it suffers from the same usability / specialized DNS resolver issue, among potentially other issues.

Is there any way to bridge the gap so that the existing system of DNS resolvers will work on whatever the new namespace is? Until owen.bitcoin resolves automatically on my grandma's PC, without any special configuration, I think we're gonna keep failing to take off. If we can solve that, there are probably a half dozen decent decentralized solutions to do the rest.