First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public Ledger of Credentials

Re:First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public ... by cmjs on Monday September 28, 2026 @05:46PM (#49884877)

Nobody owns a domain name. You rent it, subject to the whims of the registry. Miss a single payment and you loose it forever. Even if you always pay up on time, despite price rises etc, they can still decide to take it away: https://neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09/03/

PLC is imperfect, like every solution to identity so far, but it's a lot better (in terms of ownership / control of your own ID) than DNS.

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Re:First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public ... by idiotsecant on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:34PM (#49887831)

I think ENS basically solved this already. Turns out nobody really cares about the problem much.

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Re:First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public ... by tancop on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @05:50AM (#49890563)

The problem with ENS is only Brave and Opera support it. That's less that 5% of users. If Chrome had a way to add custom domain resolvers in extensions it would be a lot more useful because you wouldn't need to tell people they have to install a whole new browser.

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Re:First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public ... by idiotsecant on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @08:01AM (#49891727)

I guess that is technically correct, but I'm not sure that's a weakness of the underlying protocol

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Re:First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public ... by someonebaggy on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @08:13AM (#49891868)

Permanent human-readable names are subject to squatting. Who owns microsoft.eth? I bet it's not Microsoft.

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