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Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names

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Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names

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Post by BLanen »

Lose your key? Lose your domain, forever, for everyone, irreversible by any legal intervention.

Yea, fuck that.

Also, as with 99% of "smart contracts". The main contract which allows for updating the smart contract, and thus is ultimately in control of everything, is controlled by 1 private key. Nice "trustless". Just gotta trust this one entity never to make a mistake.

Also, this has literally already been done at least 5 other times already before the "NFT" acronym was invented. Remember namecoin, anyone?

Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names

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Post by mxcrossb »

pfraze wrote: post #69
mxcrossb wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No I think he’s saying it’s beyond rescue because first it went from a “good” country like Norway, to a “worse” country like Sweden, to an “even worse” country like Poland, to an “even more Wiesel country like China, and racist crap like this is popular on this website.

There are in fact reasons to distrust the Chinese state which have nothing to do with race.

If that were the case he would have simply said “don’t use it because you can’t trust that the Chinese government won’t do something nefarious” and I’d have no complaint. But instead he wrote this progression wherein apparently Polish people are a step down the ladder of enlightened peoples just above the Chinese.

Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names

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Post by imiric »

doublerabbit wrote: post #55
walrus01 wrote: post #11

People have been trying to make alternate-root DNS systems a thing for 20+ years, it has never caught on.

What annoys me is that there is no easy way to change DNS servers. Try on IOS, or Android and you'll find it such a hassle being hidden within other scary network settings. Windows you need to click through five different features and not forgetting that DNS is an alien word to most. Try and explain it in the simplest of ways such as "a phone book for computers" you've just bored the subject to death I use OpenNIC an…

Then configure her router's DHCP to set DNS to the OpenNIC servers or to the router itself which forwards to OpenNIC. That has worked for all my devices, and would be a pain to configure otherwise.

Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names

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Post by 542458 »

mrnobody_67 wrote: post #2

Not sure about others, but I've paid thousands of dollars for ICANN renewal fees over the last decade... love the idea of "owning" real estate on the internet vs. merely renting it (and having prices go up every few years).

Perma-owning domain names sounds like a domain name squatter’s dream come true - and therefore not a great time for everybody else.

Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names

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Post by nonbirithm »

tpmx wrote: post #29
nly wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was dead to me the moment they switched to chromium

I still think that was a necessary decision. Jon Von Tetzchner (one of the two Opera founders, and a previous long time CEO) strongly disagreed, then from the outside, but later did the exact same thing with Vivaldi. (Jon is a fantastic mensch , btw. One of the best CEOs I've ever had.) Google had very purposely raised the bar by putting like 5x-8x more competent engineers than the Opera core (non-platform/UI-specifi…

The irony was how ages ago everyone was waiting for a browser to come along and unseat IE, which was not a good browser.

Now Chrome works well enough as a browser and has so much market share that it exerts too much control over its users and the Web, and it's unlikely that anything will be capable of obsoleting it in the near future.

Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names

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Post by tpmx »

mxcrossb wrote: post #63
artursapek wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you saying it's beyond rescue because it's controlled by China?

No I think he’s saying it’s beyond rescue because first it went from a “good” country like Norway, to a “worse” country like Sweden, to an “even worse” country like Poland, to an “even more Wiesel country like China, and racist crap like this is popular on this website.

That's a weird theory. Also, I'm Swedish, not Norwegian.

Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names

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Post by livre »

Osiris wrote: post #66
livre wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you miss the old Opera UI/UX then Otter may be a decent replacement. If you want what would have been the actual continuation of the old Opera then go for Vivaldi (made by some of the old Opera team members).

Vivaldi is made by an original Opera cofounder and looks and feels very much like Opera 12 including a built in mail client.

I didn't know they had a built in email client, they didn't have it last time I tried Vivaldi and that's why I eventually stopped using it. Thanks for that info.

Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names

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Post by imiric »

prepend wrote: post #52

Where is this money going? How are these prices set? I looked up a four letter .com I have and it’s $2400. Why? Other domains aren’t available yet. NFTs for names is a really good idea but it seems like the novelty is in getting acceptance and trust. Not sure why a random org should get really substantial fees for names. For ICANN we’re forced to. But for a good blockchain solution the prices should be equitable. I u…

I agree that the prices seem arbitrary and high, but since there's no central authority competition could drive the prices down. Eventually I think we'll get to a Let's Encrypt level of service and all of this will be free, as I don't see a technical reason anyone should pay more than the transaction costs.

The high cost does prevent abuse though, as squatting would be a bigger nuisance than it is with traditional DNS if registration were cheap/free.

Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names

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Post by Spivak »

otterley wrote: post #19
Spivak wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I'm kinda confused as to why he went through all the effort of setting up email addresses rather than throwing them in a folder and backing it up to as many off-site storage providers as needed to make him comfortable. I get that sending an email might be easy but so is uploading to Dropbox or Nextcloud if it must be self-hosted. And you don't have any storage limits. Plus having blockchain domain names does not…

The author is female.

Well shit. Too late to fix it now.

Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names

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Post by [deleted] »

tpmx wrote: post #20

Opera is beyond rescue. As someone who spent a decade working there it saddens me to say so, but please don't use it. Actual, executive day-to-day control over the browser tech has progressed sort of like this: 1995: Oslo, Norway 2008: Linköping, Sweden 2014: Wrocław, Poland 2020: Beijing, PRC (the sale happened in 2016, but they were hands-off for quite some time; I think they were being busy with shady fintech stuf…

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