> Handshake is a UTXO-based blockchain protocol which manages the registration, renewal and transfer of DNS top-level domains (TLDs). > The full node daemon, hsd, is written in Javascript and is a fork of bcoin. Personally, not the future I’m looking for.
Sadly namecheap bought into this, so it’s being forced down the throats of people who don’t quite realize that the domains they can buy on the service can not, and will not ever be usable. It’s pretty obvious to even the most casual of observers that this is just yet another cryptocurrency scheme designed to fleece as many people as possible.
1. The search bar on their homepage returns no handbrake results
2. To get to those results in the first place you have to click on a 'Handbrake' tab (leaving the 'Domains' tab)
3. The search results link to an info page that clearly states "It's also important to note that handshake domains do not resolve in regular browsers without additional setup."
For the record, I think Handbrake is a doomed project and a bad investment for Namecheap, but I don't think that means we can just accuse Namecheap of "forcing it down the throats of people".