Empire building conflicts with decentralization obviously.
I love your post!

I don't intend to create an empire, but I just wanted to note that the visible website at
namecoin.pro is just the front end for anonymous visitors. On the backend are SQL servers, cache servers, mail servers and so on. But of course I didn't build this infrastructure just for the Namecoin project, there will soon be published a domain trading platform (for both ICANN domains and .bit blockchain domains), finally my Namecoin blockchain explorer (which has been running for a long time already and is accessible to members of my network) and various community websites, blogs and wiki projects.
You are making a Namecoin website which has subsections which let people make websites on your website?
I don't know yet, at the moment I plan to open a public community section (forum) first. I'm still thinking whether to open it separately under namecoin.pro or as a subsection of another community portal. Creating pages/blogs will of course be possible. But at the moment I don't plan to offer full hosting services for .bit websites. But a .bit mail system is on my to-do list.