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Domain Registry Takes Sci-Hub’s .SE Domain Name Offline

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Re: Domain Registry Takes Sci-Hub’s .SE Domain Name Offline

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dimmke wrote: post #10
politician wrote: post #9

If there’s an area where a decentralized blockchain has application, it is surely DNS and the rent-seeking certificate infrastructure.

You know what? You're right. That's literally the only proposed blockchain application I think I've ever read that I think would actually work.

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Post by tptacek »

politician wrote: post #9

If there’s an area where a decentralized blockchain has application, it is surely DNS and the rent-seeking certificate infrastructure.

Certificates are free, and all certificates are surveilled with a cryptographically secure append-only log. Meanwhile, if you think the biggest problem with the DNS infrastructure we have now is rent-seeking, take a look at the blockchain alternatives that have been proposed. There might be no modern analog to "attempting to sell the Brooklyn Bridge" more fitting than blockchain DNS.

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Post by teddyh »

politician wrote: post #9

If there’s an area where a decentralized blockchain has application, it is surely DNS and the rent-seeking certificate infrastructure.

The “rent-seeking certificate infrastructure” could be solved if web browsers used the DNS (and DNSSEC) to validate certificates. The DNS, on the other hand, is more tricky. If you want human-readable and globally distinct (and stable) names, you have to have a centralized structure to keep track of who has what name. The best we could come up with was the DNS, which is at least hierarchical instead of completely monolithic. And then it becomes a question of: do you want name holders to continually pay for names in some way, or do you want a land grab model where the person who snagged a name 30 years ago now owns it forever for free? With DNS, that question is decided by each node in the tree of the hierarchy.

Re: Domain Registry Takes Sci-Hub’s .SE Domain Name Offline

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Post by teddyh »

huggingmouth wrote: post #6
Overtonwindow wrote: post #2

FYI. http://sci-hub.ee https://sci-hub.ee https://sci-hub.wf http://sci-hub.wf https://sci-hub.cat

Any tor addresses?

There used to be one at http://scihub22266oqcxt.onion/ but that short address form is now obsolete.

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Post by zozbot234 »

teddyh wrote: post #13
politician wrote: post #9

If there’s an area where a decentralized blockchain has application, it is surely DNS and the rent-seeking certificate infrastructure.

The “rent-seeking certificate infrastructure” could be solved if web browsers used the DNS (and DNSSEC) to validate certificates. The DNS, on the other hand, is more tricky. If you want human-readable and globally distinct (and stable) names, you have to have a centralized structure to keep track of who has what name. The best we could come up with was the DNS, which is at least hierarchical instead of completely mon…

Human-readable names can potentially be pseudo-random, and thus securely generated. What's hard (indeed, considered largely infeasible) is meaningful, decentralized, secure names.

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Post by celdon25 »

tptacek wrote: post #12
politician wrote: post #9

If there’s an area where a decentralized blockchain has application, it is surely DNS and the rent-seeking certificate infrastructure.

Certificates are free, and all certificates are surveilled with a cryptographically secure append-only log. Meanwhile, if you think the biggest problem with the DNS infrastructure we have now is rent-seeking, take a look at the blockchain alternatives that have been proposed. There might be no modern analog to "attempting to sell the Brooklyn Bridge" more fitting than blockchain DNS.

Can you name some examples?

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Post by counttheforks »

Kukumber wrote: post #15

they should just mention that the content is only available for people to train their ML model Microsoft can get away with it, we might as well do the same

What is this referencing? Just ChatGPT et al illegally slurping up everything they can get their hands on, or something more specific?

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Post by jeroenhd »

dimmke wrote: post #10
politician wrote: post #9

If there’s an area where a decentralized blockchain has application, it is surely DNS and the rent-seeking certificate infrastructure.

You know what? You're right. That's literally the only proposed blockchain application I think I've ever read that I think would actually work.

I don't think it would. The moment the blockchain would start getting any traction, the big blockchain companies would use their capital to get their hands on every recognizable domain name and within days the only remaining "domains" would look like passwords. You could then probably buy readable domains for exorbitant amounts of cryptocoins.

I prefer the current registrar setup over anarchist blockchain hellscapes. You can sue Verisign, you can't sue 0xEf1c6E67703c7BD7107eed8303Fbe6EC2554BF6B.

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