People have been trying to make alternate-root DNS systems a thing for 20+ years, it has never caught on.
Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names
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Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names
#12Domain name/identity and key pinning has always been the only useful use of NFTs that I can think of. Today, to encrypt your communications with people, you use something like PGP or Signal which rely on "trust on first use (TOFU) but verify", in practice people don't really verify so it's more like TOFU. This means that if someone compromised the session at the moment where it was created (or re-created), then your…
> no attacks are possible
I think this just shifts the responsibility and point of attack onto the owner (which is true for all decentralized crypto). An attack is still possible and worse yet, it is completely irreversible.
That said, the option of taking personal custody and responsibility is important and I think it should always be an option.
Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names
#13Not sure about others, but I've paid thousands of dollars for ICANN renewal fees over the last decade... love the idea of "owning" real estate on the internet vs. merely renting it (and having prices go up every few years).
Presumably you need to pay every time you want to update where the domain points, no? https://docs.unstoppabledomains.com/domain-registry-essentia... From the docs it seems like you can "hardcode" IPs or...a traditional dns cname. At $40/domain, if you update your DNS records once every two years, you're really only just breaking even. Also, from the FAQ: > Trademark holders with proof of ownership can apply to claim…
You shouldn't have to pay much though, it's should simply be a transaction on the Ethereum network. If whoever set up that contract wants to take a fee, then it's up to people to use another contract.
Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names
#14Why on earth do you want to decentralize personal belongings? I absolutely want my possessions centralized, in storage locations I own. That is the much more obvious solution than putting personal possessions on a blockchain. If you want to store digital tokens for your kids that you can be reasonably assured will still be there when they become adults, use thumb drives. Keep them in a fireproof safe if you're really…
> my mom has managed to keep all the videos and photos of key events in my childhood safe and intact for 40 years without having to put them on a public distributed ledger
No offense, but in all likelihood no one is attempting to counterfeit or pirate your Mom's videos and photos of your childhood, and ownership/p2p ownership transfers are not material.
There are almost infinite real world examples were ownership records are benefited by blockchain technologies over centralized services. Take property deeds, usually kept and recorded at the County level, there is almost endless fraud with people filing forged quitclaim deeds on a daily basis. That would be an example of a public record, but their are private record keeping examples such as stock certificates. Usually the "Dole" case is the most famous example, where you have a publicly traded company with all the benefits of corporate record keeping, stock trusts and banks, and centralized stock exchanges, but when the buyer went to take it private low and behold the public company with all the centralized safe guards in the world should have had a total capitalization of 36M shared but somehow had about 49M share issued, it only ended up in $150M in damages, but this could not have happened using blockchain and most agree nearly every publicly traded company likely would have the same inconsistencies.
Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names
#15More fragmentation. I use Nextdns for my router's DNS, which theoretically allows me to access any domains on the competing Handshake crypto protocol, but I've never actually some across any so far.
Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names
#16Domain name/identity and key pinning has always been the only useful use of NFTs that I can think of. Today, to encrypt your communications with people, you use something like PGP or Signal which rely on "trust on first use (TOFU) but verify", in practice people don't really verify so it's more like TOFU. This means that if someone compromised the session at the moment where it was created (or re-created), then your…
> no attacks are possible I think this just shifts the responsibility and point of attack onto the owner (which is true for all decentralized crypto). An attack is still possible and worse yet, it is completely irreversible. That said, the option of taking personal custody and responsibility is important and I think it should always be an option.
Honeypot is much smaller.
Any centralized source of data is very attractive and worth spending a lot of time & effort on and inevitable gets hacked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_data_breaches
Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names
#17Domain name/identity and key pinning has always been the only useful use of NFTs that I can think of. Today, to encrypt your communications with people, you use something like PGP or Signal which rely on "trust on first use (TOFU) but verify", in practice people don't really verify so it's more like TOFU. This means that if someone compromised the session at the moment where it was created (or re-created), then your…
> no attacks are possible I think this just shifts the responsibility and point of attack onto the owner (which is true for all decentralized crypto). An attack is still possible and worse yet, it is completely irreversible. That said, the option of taking personal custody and responsibility is important and I think it should always be an option.
> I think this just shifts the responsibility and point of attack onto the owner
The owner is always a target, it doesn't change that, it just removes a bunch of single points of failure and middle men.
> An attack is still possible and worse yet, it is completely irreversible
Attacks are always possible, but depending on your threat model you do end up eliminating a number of them. As I said, with a naive implementation you make an attack irreversible, but it's not impossible to imagine an optional, committee base KYC-based account recovery mechanism.
Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names
#18People have been trying to make alternate-root DNS systems a thing for 20+ years, it has never caught on.
I'm not a blockchain fan but "somebody tried this once and it didn't work" is hardly a dismissal of an entire class of ideas. Beanz didn't catch on but bitcoin seems to have.
Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names
#19So we need blockchain because google controls the emails of his kids that he has set up. What? If you want you data to be safe, then host your data yourself and make backups. Yet another "we had a blockchain and did not know what to do with it" solution that nobody needs. I think I lost IQ points reading this nonsense.
Yeah I'm kinda confused as to why he went through all the effort of setting up email addresses rather than throwing them in a folder and backing it up to as many off-site storage providers as needed to make him comfortable. I get that sending an email might be easy but so is uploading to Dropbox or Nextcloud if it must be self-hosted. And you don't have any storage limits. Plus having blockchain domain names does not…
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Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names
#20Opera is beyond rescue. As someone who spent a decade working there it saddens me to say so, but please don't use it.
Actual, executive day-to-day control over the browser tech has progressed sort of like this:
1995: Oslo, Norway
2008: Linköping, Sweden
2014: Wrocław, Poland
2020: Beijing, PRC (the sale happened in 2016, but they were hands-off for quite some time; I think they were being busy with shady fintech stuff in Africa enabled by the Opera Mini work we did mostly in Sweden a decade earlier: https://www.engadget.com/2020-01-19-opera-accused-of-predato...)