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Decentralized naming is an interesting problem. There are several problems with this design though: 1) Cheap, permanent domain squatting is possible 2) Legit
by Canada 11y ago
Decentralized naming is an interesting problem.
There are several problems with this design though:
1) Cheap, permanent domain squatting is possible
2) Legitimate domain owners can't recover from key loss
3) Onerous storage requirements for every node
- the8472 11y ago> 2) Legitimate domain owners can't recover from key loss That doesn't seem like an insurmountable obstacle to me. You could devise a scheme where there's the option of a majority of multiple offline backup keys can be used to invalidate and replace the current online key. Then it's up to the legitimate owner whether the domain is valuable enough to do that kind of key management and backup.
- kerkeslager 11y agoThis is a problem of interest to me because I've just started working on a P2P project in Erlang that would benefit a lot from having DNS that isn't as easily squattable. Do you know of any solutions to that, or attempted solutions?