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Re:Decentralized DNS with the Handshake Naming System by justinmchase on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @01:07PM (#20627166)
You don't do the mining, you pay a small fee to have others do the mining. By small I mean it costs me about $0.004 USD worth of eth to update my ENS domains.

A pretty small price to pay for the superior features.

For private info perhaps DNS will continue to work just fine for companies. Theoretically you can also host private block-chains and use that if you really wanted to.

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Re:Decentralized DNS with the Handshake Naming System by mugsie on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @01:31PM (#20627442)
> A pretty small price to pay for the superior features.

I am still trying to figure out what superior features these are, even for me as a small sites.

For certs, I can have Lets Encrypt, and set a CAA record of letsencypt.org. For DNS, I can host my own, or use one of the myriad of providers out there.

I am not likely to have my domain taken away from me (and neither are most people), so the DNS ROOT switch is not a draw.

Why would I move to a DNS ROOT with no one on it?

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