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Re:Hijack of Amazon’s domain service used to reroute web tra... by pdimitar on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @02:52PM (#16915498)
Check out IPFS' DNS alternative -- IPNS. No blockchain needed, it's pretty solid.
Re:Hijack of Amazon’s domain service used to reroute web tra... by d4l3k on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @03:20PM (#16915704)
The issue with IPNS is it's based off of public private key crypto which means the "domain" is a hash and has no name recognition. While still useful, it's not going to make its way into the mainstream anytime soon.

For instance, I host my personal site on both IPFS and normal web traffic.

https://fn.lc/ipns/Qmea45XwFtdwaCGAPLRMxFmoUP5YLnknc2WGCGQ3H...

https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipns/Qmea45XwFtdwaCGAPLRMxFmoUP5YLnk...

Re:Hijack of Amazon’s domain service used to reroute web tra... by alexdumitru on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @10:24PM (#16918241)
The first one took 61 seconds to load, while the second one took 121 seconds. It doesn't seem very practical.
Re:Hijack of Amazon’s domain service used to reroute web tra... by KirinDave on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @04:49PM (#16916431)
I did. It's not very useful or performant, unfortunately.