Was a pleasure speaking with
Larry Greenblatt's CISSP class!

We covered blockchain DNS, and dived deep into #DPKI, #Namecoin, #ENS, and #HNS!

Part 1 goes over DPKI, #DNSSEC, etc.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAbh0eFWrSw

Part 2: covers specific blockchains: https://youtube.com/watch?v=c94gCECFIOs

Thank you to Matthew Zipkin, whose slides I used to talk about #Handshake.

This is where something like #blockchain would come in: I'm not sure how existing DNS-on-blockchain systems, like #Namecoin, #ENS, or #Handshake, do it, but it's like that. #Loki's #Session has a thing where you can buy a permanent username, but I don't trust any system backed by crypto (read: hype alone). I'd much rather use Tor than Loki simply because volunteers will always last longer than Oxen's profits.

An empirical study of #Namecoin and lessons for #decentralized #namespace design

Paper
https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/publications/namespaces.pdf

@ulrike It's a very old idea, #Namecoin was 11 years ago. https://www.namecoin.org/ https://www.afnic.fr/en/observatory-and-resources/expert-papers/nfts-and-domain-names-friends-and-partners/

Tiens.. une autre expérience qui vise à créer une sorte d'autorité d'attribution et de certification de noms de domaine mais de manière décentralisée (de pair-à-pair)
https://handshake.org/
... ça ressemble pas mal au projet #Namecoin il me semble.

Il existe même une sorte de résolveur #DNS ou #HDNS ( https://www.hdns.io/ )

#Handshake

@lioh@fosstodon.org #Namecoin didn't have any premine/airdrop and it's merge-mined with #Bitcoin, which means that it doesn't have to generate its own proof-of-work and that coins are evenly distributed to all miners and not awarded to the creators.
Sadly, DNS is a hard system to disrupt or enter as a small player. It's hard, even in Linux, to support custom TLDs at the OS level. Some people have browser extensions or forwarder domains, but it's not the real thing.

@FreePietje @kekcoin The ENS can be useful. Sadly it's built on #Ethereum.. #Namecoin is #Bitcoin merge-mined. So it's supposed to be ideal. I haven't heard much of the project for many years, though.
It would be cool if those crazy web-devs building all the Ethereum infrastructure could do some work on Namecoin. Sadly there are no ICOs throwing millions at them, though. I guess they have misaligned motivations..

Is there nothing the internet can do to block this? Are there any non-profit domains left?
I feel like this really increases the need for decentralized #DNS. How is #Namecoin doing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21656960
#org #por #icann

@berkes Yeah I think the idea of #Namecoin is to just be a top-level dns. If you want subdomains, you should host your own DNS nameserver from your root domain. Which I think is a fine approach. Top-level domains is where arbitration is needed, below that, existing DNS infra does the job.

@berkes #Namecoin with some JS flavoring?

Ein weiterer Schritt weg vom kommerzialisierten DNS-System und hin zu einer verteilten Alternative? #namecoin

Confession: I Once Name Squatted On Namecoin

https://fixingtao.com/2018/03/confession-i-once-name-squatted-on-namecoin/ #Namecoin #Confession