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Re:Bluesky partners with Namecheap to power domains as usern... by devjab on Friday July 07, 2023 @02:16AM (#36627887)
I think you can come up with a range of issues as to how this will eventually fail for some people, but what is a better alternative?
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Re:Bluesky partners with Namecheap to power domains as usern... by Karrot_Kream on Friday July 07, 2023 @02:56AM (#36628176)
DHT based naming systems (GNS, IPNS, Tor Onion names), Blockchain based naming systems, Web-of-Trust style naming, there's lots out there.
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Re:Bluesky partners with Namecheap to power domains as usern... by didntcheck on Friday July 07, 2023 @03:57AM (#36628615)
Relevent concept: Zooko's Triangle [1]: it's hard to have a naming system which is decentralised and secure against spoofing without giving you long and random (or hashed) names, like with .onion services

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle

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Re:Bluesky partners with Namecheap to power domains as usern... by tsimionescu on Friday July 07, 2023 @02:56AM (#36628180)
Per-service identities, as we have them right now. Alternatively, government issued and policed identities.
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