Why is money (coins) necessary for this?
Why is a Proof-of-Waste blockchain necessary for this? We already have https://www.eff.org/observatory , and anyone can run a DNS server for free.
"anyone" can not run a root zone server.
Handshake: An experimental peer-to-peer root DNS
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Re: Handshake: An experimental peer-to-peer root DNS
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> They wouldn't be able to immediately route any TLD anywhere they'd like It seems to me that this can only be true if it's also impossible for the legitimate owner to change this. If it can be changed, then the 51% attacker can change it. The actual DNS contains names with hugely long cache lifetimes and very little practical agility, and it also contains "fast flux" names whose RRs change constantly. If this experi…
I don't think anyone has a short TTL for a record in the root zone.
24 hours seems to be common for the TLDs I looked at. That seems fairly short compared to this idea that a 51% attacker would need sustained capability to do real damage.