> On the one hand public resources (like domain names - or plots of land) have traditionally always been publicly recorded. That is bullshit. Land has been pub

> On the one hand public resources (like domain names - or plots of land) have traditionally always been publicly recorded. That is bullshit. Land has been publicly recorded because land is expensive. Recording the actual owner publicly makes it much more difficult for a bad actor to sell you land he does not actually own. A domain is like 15 bucks a year. You can't register a domain name of someone else's brand, if that brand actually cares. Publicly recording domain names is like publicly recording who has bought milk at the supermarket.