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From the site: "Stop paying for new domains" Also from the site: "Buy Handshake coins" :(

• capableweb 6y ago
  Bit simplified. More accurate (at least from my understanding of the article): From the site: "Stop buying domains that are owned by third-party for-profit companies who control the market" Also from the site: "Use the Handshake currency to participate in auctions hosted by no one in particular, in a market controlled by code"
  • themihai 6y ago
    >> Use the Handshake currency to participate in auctions hosted by no one in particular Well, it looks like the short/good tlds were either reserved or already bought. To me it's just another failed distribution model/project. How many active handshake websites are there? 99% of the domains sold seem inactive, purchased for speculative resale value. Guess what? I'm working on my own fork with a more value-based distribution(IMO).
    • capableweb 6y ago
      > Well, it looks like the short/good tlds were either reserved or already bought That's up to debate I guess :) I'm sure people say the same about the web/internet today, but still good domains are being created every minute, because someone is more creative than the ones before.
      • themihai 6y ago
        The whole point(or at least most of it) of handshake was to have a fair distribution model. It's not like handshake is the first blockchain DNS system.
    • masukomi 6y ago
      actually... the tlds are gradually being parceled out via a seemingly random algorithm to prevent exactly the type of squatting you're complaining about. a LOT of TLDs still aren't available for purchase yet. the ones that are already in the top Alexa results were reserved for the people/companies that already owned the names in existing TLDs... again, to prevent squatting.
• masukomi 6y ago
  to be clear, you don't have to buy coins. you can still mine them and a boatload were given away to open source devs.