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Ethereum has contract call ENS (Ethereum Name Service). It's kind of like a decentralized DNS. People are starting to use that to create .eth domain names tha
by zaphod420 7y ago
Ethereum has contract call ENS (Ethereum Name Service). It's kind of like a decentralized DNS.
People are starting to use that to create .eth domain names that point to .onion sites.
https://medium.com/the-ethereum-name-service/list-of-ens-names-that-resolve-to-tor-onion-websites-99140a4c674f https://medium.com/the-ethereum-name-service/list-of-ens-nam...
- solarkraft 7y agoWhy is this of interest?
- zaphod420 7y ago.onion urls are difficult to remember. ENS provides human readable names that point to .onion urls.
- blotter_paper 7y agoI think DNS is one of the top two most appropriate uses for blockchains. Besides the auctions and the TLD, what are the tradeoffs you're aware of between ENS and Namecoin? There's a part of me that feels like having One True Blockchain for everything sounds cool, but I also think Ethereum might be overkill for what is essentially a key-value store. Is there a formal ENS whitepaper with all the relevant high-level details in one document that my google-fu is failing to find, or are these web docs and the github code the best starting point right now? https://docs.ens.domains/ https://docs.ens.domains/