Significant improvements to the project's README were just pushed, hopefully this helps clarify what the project does:
https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA. On Feb 7, 2014, at 9:48 PM, Tao Effect <cont...@taoeffect.com> wrote: > Hi Paul, > > On Feb 7, 2014, at 8:02 PM, Paul Wouters <p...@nohats.ca> wrote: > >> So why do you want a TLD in it? It's broken and insecure. Go somewhere >> secure? Oh, you mean it is still useful and secure enough for you? Maybe >> it is secure and useful enough for everyone else too? > > ... oh dear ... > >> https://nohats.ca/wordpress/blog/2012/04/09/you-cant-p2p-the-dns-and-have-it-too/ > > Think that blog post was shot down on metzdowd or randombit, I won't bother > repeating the conversation here. Sufficed to say that it's incorrect. > >> Yes, pay ICANN $120k > > I'd rather not, and there's no need or compelling reason to. They can take > their monopoly and slowly disappear with it. > >> Yes it is. I'm sure you can pay that $120k immediately once you tell >> your angel investor about your grand plan on how to save _everyone_ in >> the world from their $10/year domain rip-off. > > Don't need angel investors. Code works, and I have my server. You can use it > if you'd like, I won't charge you. :-) > >> How come you _need_ them _and_ will put them out of business? > > It sounds like you do not understand what DNSChain is. > > I don't need them, nor does anyone else. I'm using .dns right now, and .bit, > and so are others, and ICANN is not involved in any way. > >> Why not pretend you succeeded and ICANN and the DNS is dead. So no need for >> your >> .dns TLD anymore, since the root is dead. Why do you want .dns again? > > DNS wouldn't be dead if ICANN were gone, it would just be different. > > Instead of depending on a centralized authority that charges everyone money, > it would be distributed. > > The blockchain works. DHT works. > > We have the technology. It's here now. > > No need to push a centralized authority on anyone. > >> You didn't even address two valid points Andrew brought up: >> >> 1) You are going to cause sending junk queries all over the internet. >> What are your plans to preven/reduce that? > > Sorry, I don't understand what the problem is? Could you elaborate? > >> 2) Why do you need a TLD .dns, and why can't you use a $15/year >> iwillneverrunnameservershere.org > > > It's a meta-TLD, not a TLD. > > Each .dns is owned by just one DNSChain server. Yours, hopefully. :-) > > Cheers, > Greg > > -- > Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing > with the NSA. > > _______________________________________________ > therightkey mailing list > therightkey@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/therightkey
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