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It is a billion times better than decentralized DNS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file#History

• dstein 15y ago
  I imagine a decentralized DNS service based on the bitcoin network would be kinda cool.
  • pizza 15y ago
    Check out namecoin.
    • chrisjsmith 15y ago
      Interesting - thanks for the link.
    • baltcode 15y ago
      I had difficulty understanding namecoin. Do you simply pay for DNS registration with namecoins or is the DNS itself hosted in a decentralized and anonymous fashion?
      • doublec 15y ago
        You pay for the registration and update of names with namecoins and the data is stored in the namecoin blockchain. In this way it is decentralized. Lookups are done directly from the blockchain.
    • gasull 15y ago
      Or just .onion using Tor.
• andrewcooke 15y ago
  if anyone is interested, i wrote a script to improve that a little. obviously it's no replacement for dns, but it makes it easier to share the data - it treats your hosts file as a database that can be both dumped to a file and updated from various sources, including web pages. https://github.com/ghettonet/GhettoNet https://github.com/ghettonet/GhettoNet