Decentralized DNS with the Handshake Naming System • Hacker News Board

Re: Decentralized DNS with the Handshake Naming System

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Post by thinkmassive » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 8:09 PM UTC

troquerre wrote: post #28

danShumway wrote: post #9

The article and Namebase faq go into some details, but just so I understand, what are the practical effects of this beyond decentralization? - If I buy a TLD, will I own it in perpetuity, even after I die? - If we're encouraging people to register their own TLDs, won't we run into the same limited-name/squatter problems as normal domains? I get that names are being released at a trickle, but that seems like it would…

I work at Namebase.The other comments address most of your questions, but just to add on: the 52 week rollout will help significantly with preventing squatters. Handshake has designed some other mechanisms that prevent squatting. The first is that the Alexa top 100k domains have been pre-registered (only facebook.com can register .facebook on Handshake). This ensures that existing domain stakeholders can transition t…

Is there a way to be included if we have fewer than 15 followers? I've open sourced some personal projects, and I'm interested in claiming my domain (already did this on ENS), but after visiting handshake.org I did not see a way to participate without being included in the automated airdrop. Thanks!

Re: Decentralized DNS with the Handshake Naming System

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Post by crediblewitness » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 8:15 PM UTC

mugsie wrote: post #45

crediblewitness wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Good luck with that. If there is no way to have a US court take ownership of a domain (or force someone to handover a bad faith registration), someone will either end up in jail for contempt, or it will just be banned. This same argument applies to bitcoin and it has not (yet) been banned in much of the free world.

We don't see them trying to change anything on the chain with bitcoin - just trace people (and law enforcement has gotten pretty good at that to be fair). They seize wallets from people they arrest, like normal cash / assets, or get a court order to get companies holding the coin to hand them over, if the accused used a hosted wallet.

it would work exactly the same then: taking ownership of the handshake private key by which the registration means you control that name.

Re: Decentralized DNS with the Handshake Naming System

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Post by drexlspivey » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 8:43 PM UTC

tynes wrote: post #46

ishanjain28 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey! So, I thought this was cool and wanted to try it out. Compiled hnsd and tried to run it on local machine and an ec2 spot instance but it keeps failing to connect to it's (hardcoded?) peers. I keep seeing this, peer 354 (172.104.177.177:13038): failed connecting: connection refused peer 354 (172.104.177.177:13038): closing peer peer 354 (172.104.177.177:13038): closed peer peer 355 (139.162.183.168:13038): failed…

Unfortunately the seeder peers aren't up right now, see here for a fresh peers list https://hnscan.com/peers

502 Bad Gateway

Re: Decentralized DNS with the Handshake Naming System

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Post by ishanjain28 » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 8:49 PM UTC

drexlspivey wrote: post #73

tynes wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately the seeder peers aren't up right now, see here for a fresh peers list https://hnscan.com/peers

502 Bad Gateway

I tried it right after he suggested doing that.

Try this command, It contains a list of peers that were working few hours back. Maybe they are still online.

  ./hnsd -r 127.0.0.1:53  -s ajgkxfe47u6wwyvyh7qixbdddvjxcqbs2oxwr5attq45yj72s5pcs@54.201.46.33:13038,akudgzg2wntfjucsodyvz44h76qae7xrtuix6wc6fc22cx5jll6fe@165.227.52.206:13038,ajaqq7jwqrwixmvl64tzi3qfi7ynj3hmmtzmkyubtrljh4mwmh7ie@165.22.151.242:13038,ap77bve4acntajehkvqc33bvlsi27ka6l2xte4fhn2ghuwx44fsxc@18.236.58.201:13038

Re: Decentralized DNS with the Handshake Naming System

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Post by eikenberry » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 9:24 PM UTC

troquerre wrote: post #30

As an FYI for HN, many of y'all are probably eligible for $400-800 of Handshake coins (HNS). Handshake is airdropping coins to open-source developers to incentivize them to check out the project. If you have over 15 followers on GitHub you can use this tool to claim coins. This is a no-strings-attached giveaway so if you want to you can also sell your coins but it'd be worth it to bid on your name before you do. You…

I thought about it for a minute, then quickly skipped it when I saw the instructions. If you are hoping that free software devs will help bootstrap this by using it then you'll need to make that process much easier.