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DNS-on-Blockchain is the next step after DNS-over-HTTPS

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Re: DNS-on-Blockchain is the next step after DNS-over-HTTPS

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Post by troquerre »

Handshake is another DNS on blockchain project that's taking a different approach — it's aiming to decentralize the root zone (TLDs) instead of domains, because the root zone is where the centralization happens.

This MIT Tech Review article gives a good overview of Handshake's goals: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613446/the-ambitious-plan...

Re: DNS-on-Blockchain is the next step after DNS-over-HTTPS

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Post by dogma1138 »

troquerre wrote: post #3

Handshake is another DNS on blockchain project that's taking a different approach — it's aiming to decentralize the root zone (TLDs) instead of domains, because the root zone is where the centralization happens. This MIT Tech Review article gives a good overview of Handshake's goals: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613446/the-ambitious-plan...

Every time I see an article claiming that someone is building some “decentralized” system to make censorship harder I wonder if anyone of those people even understands how the internet is censored at scale in places like China.

For the censorship we have in the west e.g. blacklisting torrent sites a non-ISP DNS and or CDN already solve that problem, for anything beyond that nothing would help.

Re: DNS-on-Blockchain is the next step after DNS-over-HTTPS

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Post by jeffk_teh_haxor »

So every DNS change is stored into the blockchain, forever? Will you have to download terabytes and terabytes of the blockchain in order to serve as a node? Why is that kind of audit history necessary?

Why is the solution to every problem "blockchain" these days?

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Post by heythere22 »

jeffk_teh_haxor wrote: post #6

So every DNS change is stored into the blockchain, forever? Will you have to download terabytes and terabytes of the blockchain in order to serve as a node? Why is that kind of audit history necessary? Why is the solution to every problem "blockchain" these days?

As I read it, this proposal only stores the keys used for signing in the blockchain. You could use DNSSEC though to archive basically the same thing.

Re: DNS-on-Blockchain is the next step after DNS-over-HTTPS

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Post by cobbzilla »

Yes, DNS should be like the old phone book — published regularly, pick one up anywhere & everywhere, look things up anonymously (granted, authenticity guarantees were somewhat lacking).

My question - Sure blockchain can do this, but couldn’t a simpler DHT-based p2p system would work just as well or better? I like the distributed/anonymity/authenticity, but why is blockchain required?

Re: DNS-on-Blockchain is the next step after DNS-over-HTTPS

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Post by techntoke »

cobbzilla wrote: post #8

Yes, DNS should be like the old phone book — published regularly, pick one up anywhere & everywhere, look things up anonymously (granted, authenticity guarantees were somewhat lacking). My question - Sure blockchain can do this, but couldn’t a simpler DHT-based p2p system would work just as well or better? I like the distributed/anonymity/authenticity, but why is blockchain required?

My guess is because some crypto provider wants to manage it and charge you to publish to it.
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