Re:Maintaining Digital Certificate Security
by itistoday2 on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @02:47AM
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> If Google stored their domain info in a blockchain how would anyone know what identifier actually belonged to Google?
The same way they know that Google chose google.com and Twitter chose twitter.com instead of twitter.io or something else.
> The last time I brought this up you admitted there was no good solution yet, has that changed?
This is referring to something else I think, how to transfer .com's into a blockchain while preserving ownership, is that right? That could be done (if needed) with a centralized registrar whose job it was to vet the ownership of the names upon first registration in some namespace. After the initial registration, control would be transferred to the owner of the domain. This is again, however, specific to the case of migrating ICANN domains (if someone wants to do that).
The same way they know that Google chose google.com and Twitter chose twitter.com instead of twitter.io or something else.
> The last time I brought this up you admitted there was no good solution yet, has that changed?
This is referring to something else I think, how to transfer .com's into a blockchain while preserving ownership, is that right? That could be done (if needed) with a centralized registrar whose job it was to vet the ownership of the names upon first registration in some namespace. After the initial registration, control would be transferred to the owner of the domain. This is again, however, specific to the case of migrating ICANN domains (if someone wants to do that).