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Went through the FAQ's, but still didn't understood much about how this is supposed to work alongside ICANN/current DNS system. Well, I didn't got Bitcoin the f

Went through the FAQ's, but still didn't understood much about how this is supposed to work alongside ICANN/current DNS system. Well, I didn't got Bitcoin the first 2 times either. 1. "Browsing the web with human readable names is what Internet users have gotten acclimated to." => give me an example of a "handshake" domain name in this case 2. I have some domains/sites not so popular (not in the first 100k Alexa domains). I will only hear about "Handshake" in 5 years time when Handshake completely replaced what we are using today, by which time, someone else might have "registered my domain names". What do I do? Obviously I can prove I own my .com/.net. To site failed to answer some basic questions/concerns or give some real world use case scenarios.

sfusato 7y ago
Own answer to 2: So all existing TLDs are by default "pre-reserved". Secondly, the 100k top Alexa sites refers to the inability to register a ".whatever" if that "whatever.some_tld" is in top 100k Alexa. So, basically this is "pre-reserving" "gTLD". In my first impression, these 2 things were somehow correlated.
xur17 7y ago
> I have some domains/sites not so popular (not in the first 100k Alexa domains). I will only hear about "Handshake" in 5 years time when Handshake completely replaced what we are using today, by which time, someone else might have "registered my domain names". What do I do? Obviously I can prove I own my .com/.net. This is one part that Handshake does not explain very well. The existing domains and tlds that icann owns will continue to work moving forward. The top 100k Alexa domains bit works like this: For the top 100k alexa domains, the owner receives the root of the domain as a domain in Handshake (ex: the owner of `example.com` receives the domain `example` in Handshake). All `*.com`, etc domains continue to operate as they have in the past.
- withinboredom 7y ago
  What happens if someone gets “amazing/“ and then I pay icann to get .amazing?

sfusato 7y ago

Own answer to 2: So all existing TLDs are by default "pre-reserved". Secondly, the 100k top Alexa sites refers to the inability to register a ".whatever" if that "whatever.some_tld" is in top 100k Alexa. So, basically this is "pre-reserving" "gTLD". In my first impression, these 2 things were somehow correlated.

xur17 7y ago

> I have some domains/sites not so popular (not in the first 100k Alexa domains). I will only hear about "Handshake" in 5 years time when Handshake completely replaced what we are using today, by which time, someone else might have "registered my domain names". What do I do? Obviously I can prove I own my .com/.net. This is one part that Handshake does not explain very well. The existing domains and tlds that icann owns will continue to work moving forward. The top 100k Alexa domains bit works like this: For the top 100k alexa domains, the owner receives the root of the domain as a domain in Handshake (ex: the owner of `example.com` receives the domain `example` in Handshake). All `*.com`, etc domains continue to operate as they have in the past.

withinboredom 7y ago
What happens if someone gets “amazing/“ and then I pay icann to get .amazing?