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You're right, but had it not been so restrictive would people have used it for its core purpose? There are a bunch of other reasons it hasn't caught on. But at this stage I think t…

The .tel TLD was established for the purpose of publishing contact/location and other meta info at the DNS level, but it hasn't yet caught on unfortunately.

Yep, but the point I was trying to make is that DNS over UDP works well today. It's also worth remembering that most of the world has 2G connectivity. Heck, even I'm 2G most of the…

This is partly why I'm so interested in publishing information at the DNS level (i.e. .tel) - you get to use UDP (or TCP failover), plus other awesome benefits. You can do other in…

DNS is distributed, so I think you meant to say decentralised? But I'm baffled as to why anybody would want to use it? For it to become useful we'd need to go to the extraordinary …

It doesn't surprise me that this is the first occasion you've heard about it :) But all of the complexity is hidden. The API is standardised, so management apps and other services …

This is why I believe the .tel TLD is so important - DNS for people, no more carrier or service provider lock-in, stupid fast, and resilient. I have about a dozen services defined …

I'm looking forward to decentralised microblogging, since then we can publish multiple feeds (RSS would seem ideal) from the same identity (domain), e.g. $ dig andy.tel naptr|grep …

Dan Kaminsky, Spelunking the Triangle: http://dankaminsky.com/2011/01/13/spelunk-tri/

All the ludicrous claims about transforming commerce, toppling governments, etc. are starting to grate a little, and I thought this headline deliberately suggested a much more seri…

No, they're not.

You're right, but "dishonesty" is a dirty word, despite not necessarily always being bad or immoral. It's up to journalists to perform balanced reporting. We trust them to do that.…

Intriguing news for the DNS crowd :)

Well it was first drafted in 2002, and Jakob Schlyter actually wrote about it recently: http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110327_death_of_the_pki_drag... Along the same lines Google …

Yep. DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE): http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dane-protocol-06 I'm glad DNS has been getting a lot of love lately. I just wish peopl…

Neat. You could drop the HTTP part and use pure DNS: $ dig @auth-ns hashed-password.andy.tel naptr NXDOMAIN on failure, NAPTR record (or a set of records) on success. Your comment …

That's a very good point, although it's changing; specialist registrars/resellers, directory publishers, and VOIP companies are all showing interest now. But I was thinking more ab…

I heard Michael Jackson used to change his number on a biweekly basis. Would be quite interesting to see a survey on this group. See my other comment for a neat solution ;)

I like it. A reviewer says, "shouting numbers in a crowded bar isn't a particularly fun sport". Exactly ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m50xrDcj0fc ). I'm a big fan of the .tel TL…

There are many p2p networks for streaming content - they seem to be popular in Asia for watching English and European football, and I think many of these existed prior to 2007. I'm…

Interesting, thanks. The scope for my contest would be more loosely based than solving a specific problem criteria, although that could be an added fun twist! I anticipate people w…