125 sats \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 9 Oct \ on: The Disappearance of an Internet Domain tech
I have been thinking about domains a lot lately. We all allow ourselves to be subjugated to these agencies. I really like the idea of unbreakable domains that cannot be taken down, or even better a nostr like whole new way of identifying and hosting sites in a distributed, decentralized way. I'm sure it's not so simple.
In the past was a very interesting fork of bitcoin named Namecoin (NMC). It was also merged mined together with BTC. It was a promise of decentralized domain names.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin
https://www.namecoin.org/docs/faq/
But unfortunately the project died. Now is just a shitcoin.
But for a truly decentralized system, we need a full IPv6 standard.
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Have you heard of IPFS? That was a project I was interested in for a while, with the idea of an address space based on content rather than server. (You search for the hash of a piece of data and anyone hosting that data can serve it to you.)
They have a coin associated with it, Filecoin I believe.
But I haven't really kept up with it. I just thought the idea was interesting.
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They are a weakpoint. I think gnunet has solved the problem elegantly, but is has little adoption and is kind of rickety to get to function.
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I think you could operate some sort of peer-to-peer network, but a lot of them still require domain registration to provide individual domain addresses. A domain is like a network of many machines. IPV6 is able to give every machine ever made and, I think, any machine ever to be made in the future an individual address, but these are machine specific and not network specific. This is why there is the Domain Name Address system ( I am forgetting the exact name for it). Domains are for separate networks
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