The GNU Name System

Re:The GNU Name System by cowtools on Monday July 25, 2022 @10:29AM (#32224789)

I don't have a lot of faith in the namecoin or namecoin-derivative solutions. Just because an agent has a lot of cryptocurrency or hash power doesn't mean they should be able to steal or squat a domain. There are security consequences for domain ownership.

Users should get to explicitly decide for themselves who owns what domain, or delegate that power to a trusted authority to decide for them. GNS enables this behavior.

I think namespacing is a rather poor use-case of this type of consensus.

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Re:The GNU Name System by NoGravitas on Monday July 25, 2022 @12:30PM (#32226749)

Yeah, namecoin was a pretty dramatic failure — every interesting domain on it was squatted early on, when it was cheaper to do so.

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Re:The GNU Name System by aaaaaaaaata on Monday July 25, 2022 @01:42PM (#32228084)

Differing itself from ICANN in what way, exactly?

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Re:The GNU Name System by tptacek on Monday July 25, 2022 @02:03PM (#32228415)

In exactly the way stated.

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Re:The GNU Name System by User23 on Monday July 25, 2022 @03:55PM (#32230074)

I think the point being made was that all the identifiably good DNS names got squatted back in the 90s when they were free.

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