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DoB will have to deal with some problems, especially bad actors; people will squat on domains, register typos (fscebook.com) or even bitflips (fabebook.com, b i
by zaarn 7y ago
DoB will have to deal with some problems, especially bad actors; people will squat on domains, register typos (fscebook.com) or even bitflips (fabebook.com, b is one bitflip from c). Malware owners will run their C&C servers on domains.
Malicious domains will require someone removing them or blocking them even, unless you want the DoB namespace to turn into a cesspool of malware, phishing and nazis. Not something the average person wants.
- pkhamre 7y agoYou could probably say the same thing about DNS right before it was introduced to the mainstream.
- zaarn 7y agoDNS was introduced when a centrally managed /etc/hosts file was no longer feasible, it was a simple solution to a problem that fairly few people (mostly computer researchers) had. It solved the problem and not much more. Computers weren't mainstream when DNS was invented.
- m-p-3 7y agoYou either have the freedom of decentralization and all the benefits and drawbacks that comes with it, or you have our current system with the ability to centrally manage but then you depend on those large, centralized entities to do an impartial job. And we know that nobody is impartial.
- zaarn 7y agoWhy is it always so black-and-white with blockchain people? There is no reason we can't deploy something that takes the good parts of decentralized operation without having to commit to a full P2P blockchain IoT buzzword fiasko.
- sundbry 7y agoYeah, why even let the Nazis have IP addresses? In fact, if we took away their computers, pens, and papers, surely that would make them less likely to lash out violently.
- zaarn 7y agoSeems to have worked with 8chan, last I checked it's still offline on the clearnet.
- woah 7y agoNazis and malware authors are out there using email right now. What are we going to do about it?
- Karrot_Kream 7y agoThen Facebook can buy the space of typos around their name? Just because Facebook (or Twitter, Instagram, et al) are popular sites, doesn't mean registrars should give them special treatment. What happens when they stop being popular?
- zaarn 7y agoMost larger registrars give you the same protection if you run any type of business. Though below certain threshold typo-squatting will simply not happen, but atleast in my jurisdiction I can actually sue the owner of the typosquat for the ownership of the domain.
- girlATthepub 7y agoWe girls at your pub will truck and stuck you right off, just drink a beer or two, and come down to the pub. It'll be fantastic. I guarantee you will have luck. Let's truck it. Have some self-hope. It'll be grand <3
- tinybeagle 7y agoThere are some proposals that use mechanisms like Harberger tax to combat squatting. https://discuss.ens.domains/t/highlight-robin-hansons-more-owner-forgiving-modified-harberger-tax/1071 https://discuss.ens.domains/t/highlight-robin-hansons-more-o...
- theamk 7y agoFor DNS, does that mean that if Facebook wants any domain I own, like my homepage for the last 20 years, they'll just get it? Because an amount of money I can afford to protect it is tiny compared to FB's marketing budgets.