Handshake solves this.
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#22If there’s an area where a decentralized blockchain has application, it is surely DNS and the rent-seeking certificate infrastructure.
You're looking for the Ethereum Name Service.
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#23I mentioned here before, but how can we stop these domains from dying like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34541672
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#24If 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.
> attempting to sell the Brooklyn Bridge
Handshake reserved the top 100,000 Alexa domains and allowed all trademark name holders to claim theirs.
Not to mention the ten million in FOSS grants for developers to build tooling
Sadly the ideologues will somehow decry their attempts for an alternative while defending the indefensible ICAAN.
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#26If there’s an area where a decentralized blockchain has application, it is surely DNS and the rent-seeking certificate infrastructure.
Literally one of the first applications of a blockchain tech
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#27I mentioned here before, but how can we stop these domains from dying like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34541672
Register them with cnobin or some other Chinese registrar with an abuse mail that doesn't exist, don't use any TLD owned by Verisign, and you will be able to delay domain seizure for a long amount of time. There's nothing you can do to stop it forever other than keep making more mirrors - see what fmovies and sites like that do.
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Complete political non-starter. Might as well argue for the moon to be painted blue. Not only is it a complete waste of time, any effort spent on this is also detrimental to any proposals that actually can be enacted.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 know domain sniping already happens right? There is extensive auctioning infrastructure. And most of the good names were claimed a long time ago. The only way to get an existing domain name without paying the owner for it is to sue over trademark violations or stuff like that which often will cost more than just buying it.