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1. Sheogorath 🦊 (sheogorath)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2019 13:09:19 CEST Sheogorath 🦊

   Huh, #DNS over #blockchain (or more general DNS that is based on cryptography)… It's an interesting idea especially for the root DNS servers, but there is a fundamental problem:

   Key management.

   The article I read used youtube.com as an example. What if an attacker obtains the private key for this domain? He can now control it or even transfer it.

   Right now, you can get a court rule that undoes that. But with DoB this would mean everyone has to learn a new domain. Good luck with that…

   • Sheogorath 🦊 (sheogorath)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2019 13:12:41 CEST Sheogorath 🦊

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     For those who wonder about the article:

     https://diode.io/distributed-infrastructure/Why-DNS-on-Blockchain-is-the-next-step-after-DNS-over-HTTPS-19231/

     The problem with DNS is: It's so fundamental that you want humans to have a word in it. (So probably no blockchain)

     And you also don't want in-memorable hashes as domain names, since you already have IPs for that. (So not like .onion addresses)

     I'm open for ideas, feel free to have suggestions.