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Re:Freenom, the free domains website, is a scam by murple on Sunday July 25, 2021 @05:04PM (#27952904)
When will we move to some kind of decentralized domains from this "always pay for rent" model?
Re:Freenom, the free domains website, is a scam by layoutIfNeeded on Sunday July 25, 2021 @07:06PM (#27953776)
Re:Freenom, the free domains website, is a scam by capableweb on Sunday July 25, 2021 @07:54PM (#27954058)
From linked page:

> Several systems which exhibit all three properties of Zooko's triangle have now been created, including:

> Computer scientist Nick Szabo's paper "Secure Property Titles with Owner Authority" illustrated that all three properties can be achieved up to the limits of Byzantine fault tolerance.

> Activist Aaron Swartz described a naming system based on Bitcoin employing Bitcoin's distributed blockchain as a proof-of-work to establish consensus of domain name ownership. These systems remain vulnerable to Sybil attack, but are secure under Byzantine assumptions.

> Several platforms implement refutations of Zooko's conjecture, including: Twister (which use Swartz' system with a bitcoin-like system), Blockstack (separate blockchain), Namecoin (separate blockchain), LBRY (separate blockchain and peer-to-peer file-sharing), Monero OpenAlias and Ethereum Name Service.