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Re:The GNU Name System by ninkendo on Monday January 31, 2022 @07:19PM (#30156881)
And then what? You want to put up a website that only resolves from said alternative DNS server, so you… tell everyone who may want to visit your site that they have to first setup a different DNS server?
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Re:The GNU Name System by drran on Monday January 31, 2022 @08:32PM (#30157505)
Yes. For few purposes, this is a feature, not a bug.

Examples:

• if a site is banned from ICANN DNS, then there is no other choice,

• if I want to keep bots, spammers, search systems, providers, and government out of the door,

• if I want to welcome technical elite but hide from everybody else, like it was in old Internet.

• if I don't want to pay X$ every year for every domain.

• if I want to have a cool name for my site.

• if I want to create overlays for popular sites, to fight ads, spam, promotions, PR, and unwanted content.

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Re:The GNU Name System by colejohnson66 on Monday January 31, 2022 @07:42PM (#30157066)
The crypto and Gemini communities are fine doing it (for better or worse)
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Re:The GNU Name System by _-david-_ on Monday January 31, 2022 @08:37PM (#30157538)
Doesn't Gemini still use the normal DNS servers?
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Re:The GNU Name System by colejohnson66 on Monday January 31, 2022 @09:36PM (#30157945)
I don’t know. My point was that some groups have no issues forcing their users to install a separate system to access their “internet”
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Re:The GNU Name System by anthk on Monday January 31, 2022 @11:13PM (#30158540)
It's just another protocol.
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Re:The GNU Name System by immibis on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @06:54AM (#30161370)
It does.
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