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Re:The Pirate Bay Is A Trailblazer In Technical Resilience by non-sense on Saturday March 23, 2013 @09:59AM (#5428124)
Can the control over domain names be decentralized to prevent it be single point of failure? Bitcoin may do it for curreny.

.onion pseudo TLD may be the first step in evolution. But the names are 16-bit hashes making it too long and complex.

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Re:The Pirate Bay Is A Trailblazer In Technical Resilience by wiml on Saturday March 23, 2013 @01:37PM (#5428942)
It's hard to have a global name system with readable/meaningful names unless you have a central organization.

He isn't the first person to make this observation, but Zooko's Triangle is easy to link to, so: https://zooko.com/distnames.html

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Re:The Pirate Bay Is A Trailblazer In Technical Resilience by implr on Saturday March 23, 2013 @10:40AM (#5428296)
Namecoin does this: http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page
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Re:The Pirate Bay Is A Trailblazer In Technical Resilience by derleth on Saturday March 23, 2013 @01:48PM (#5428984)
I2P manages human-readable domain names, but not necessarily reliably (the equivalent of DNS is just as distributed and unreliable as the rest of the I2P network).
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