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Re:Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority by xur17 on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @02:46PM (#22312089)
I have a longer answer here [0], but in short, Handshake does not control existing domain names. They are giving the top 100k existing domain name owners control of a gtld based on the domain they own. Ex `example.com` receives `example` in Handshake's system.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22312059

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Re:Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority by Ajedi32 on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @02:51PM (#22312133)
Okay, that's much better. Thanks for the clarification. I assume "com", "org", "net", "ninja", etc are also reserved then?
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Re:Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority by xur17 on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @02:53PM (#22312150)
Yes, they are. The list can be found here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/handshake-org/hsd/1c2d1036...
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