Comments for page "Getting Rid of Domain Registrars Using Bitcoin Algorithm"

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Thu, 14 Nov 2013 06:48:09 +0000

"How many people want them" is a pretty uncomputable metric. What algorithm would you use to convert the name into the price?

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Wed, 13 Nov 2013 22:49:20 +0000

Don't you think that there is no correlation between the value and the number of letters in a domain name?
I was wondering that maybe a better criteria would be how many subjects want to own that particular domain name?
Domain name values are higher when more people want them.
What do you think about it?

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Tue, 21 May 2013 05:52:55 +0000

The fact that someone is making money of a system isn't sufficient to conclude that customers can't switch to another system. The problem is not the money made, rather that small number of organisations have monopoly on assigning domain names. The article discusses a possible way to break that monopoly.

As for www.dns-resolver.org it's meant only as a early stage transition tool for those that use browsers with no plug-in for resolving new-style domain names. Once the plug-in is available in 3 most common browsers (which is a simple task to do, except, maybe, for IE) the www.dns-resolver.org would be almost obsolete.

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Tue, 21 May 2013 04:35:18 +0000

It might have worked before Network Solutions existed, but now there are way too many people making way too much money from the system. (social problem: don't try a technical solution) It is technically possible to set up your own root servers that list google.com as belonging to an IP address that you control. Now, how do you get the world to use it? (Then consider Google's lawyers and mafia friends breathing down your neck if you succeed.)

DNS has problems that can only be fixed disruptively. If everyone used djbdns, it would be far less broken. This would be far better than any hypothetical www.dns-resolver.org (just waiting to get hacked), and far closer to feasible (but still way out there in wishful thinking land).

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Thu, 18 Oct 2012 05:41:36 +0000

Nice! I wasn't aware of that. One problem I see with that is that if it is widely used, it will interact in strange ways with Bitcoin as a currency (limiting money supply).

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Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:34:35 +0000

Actually, a derivative of Bitcoin implementing DNS exists: it's called Namecoin, and uses the .bit namespace. The easiest way to get a .bit is to trade Bitcoins for Namecoins, then spend it on registration. The namecoins used will vanish in the void.

Website: dot-bit dot org