Re:Decentralized DNS with the Handshake Naming System
by LyndsySimon on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @01:47PM
(#20627602)
There are no "people who run these services" in the case of blockchain name resolution, though. There is (usually) a single person who possesses the private key necessary to update the records for a domain - if they find out who that is, they're welcome to use legal compulsion to force them to act.
* I say "usually" because more complex permissions schemes are possible with Bitcoin Script. m-of-n in particular I could see being very useful; it could allow individuals to update some parts of the record but not all - for instance, make it mathematically impossible to abandon the domain or move where it's pointed, but still possible to update contact information.
Re:Decentralized DNS with the Handshake Naming System
by rcoveson on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @01:44PM
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This is exactly the reason that peer-to-peer services never work. Tor, BitTorrent, cryptocurrency: Failures, all. Each of their users threatened individually by US law enforcement until the service died.
Re:Decentralized DNS with the Handshake Naming System
by troquerre on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @03:01PM
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There’s no one to threaten. You may be able to find one or two people running the fullnode but it’d be immensely difficult to find everyone running a fullnode around the world and threaten them.
We have seen this before, where people who run these services are personally held in contempt until they comply with the order.