Handshake – Decentralized naming and certificate authority
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Re: Handshake – Decentralized naming and certificate authority
#2More salient question than "is blockchain DNS a good idea": How did they get this domain name?
Re: Handshake – Decentralized naming and certificate authority
#3More salient question than "is blockchain DNS a good idea": How did they get this domain name?
I would have the same question if this was .com, but .org is somehow less dense.
Re: Handshake – Decentralized naming and certificate authority
#4More salient question than "is blockchain DNS a good idea": How did they get this domain name?
money
Re: Handshake – Decentralized naming and certificate authority
#5> Handshake is a UTXO-based blockchain protocol which manages the registration, renewal and transfer of DNS top-level domains (TLDs).
> The full node daemon, hsd, is written in Javascript and is a fork of bcoin.
Personally, not the future I’m looking for.
Re: Handshake – Decentralized naming and certificate authority
#6Another similar and interesting project, and which is not blockchain-based, is the GNU Name System: https://www.gnunet.org/en/gns.html
Re: Handshake – Decentralized naming and certificate authority
#7> Handshake is a UTXO-based blockchain protocol which manages the registration, renewal and transfer of DNS top-level domains (TLDs). > The full node daemon, hsd, is written in Javascript and is a fork of bcoin. Personally, not the future I’m looking for.
Sadly namecheap bought into this, so it’s being forced down the throats of people who don’t quite realize that the domains they can buy on the service can not, and will not ever be usable. It’s pretty obvious to even the most casual of observers that this is just yet another cryptocurrency scheme designed to fleece as many people as possible.
Re: Handshake – Decentralized naming and certificate authority
#8More salient question than "is blockchain DNS a good idea": How did they get this domain name?
If you think your scheme will result in a large return on investment you can spend a gigantic amount of money on a domain name and have it make sense. It’s how you have companies parading around with names like “crypto.com” and buying superbowl advertising.
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#9The problem they'll have is more and more TLDs are colluding with ICANN's, and Handshake chose to sell "TLDs", plus it is a proof of work blockchain.
Dappy has a .d scoping at the top to avoid collisions, POS blockchain behind it, a co-resolution system (IP addresses and root certificates are always co-resolved), and it allows multi-ownership of names.
Worth checking out https://dappy.tech/
Re: Handshake – Decentralized naming and certificate authority
#10For root replacement the biggest thing I would want is better use of the hierarchical nature of DNS. Trying to squeeze everything into mostly flat namespace is imho fundamentally intractable