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Or take the red pill and go ENS (it now supports .com and btc addresses to name a few, not just .eth)

• judge2020 5y ago
  So if I type bankofamerica.com, does ENS respond with DNS controlled by whoever purchased it on the chain, or does it first lookup at verisign's root before going to ENS?
  • iovoid 5y ago
    You can't purchase .com domains on ENS, only import them by providing a DNSSEC-based proof of ownership. This doesn't solve any of the problems with TLDs (ENS won't prevent the TLD operator from taking away your domain) so to get the benefits you have to use a ENS-centric domain like .eth
• alasano 5y ago
  I thought the real red pill was Handshake (HNS). You're not buying domains but instead are buying the TLD itself and then create domains on the TLD. I haven't read up on it that much but their pitch of "stop renting the thing in front of the TLD, own the actual TLD" is pretty cool. https://handshake.org/ https://handshake.org/ https://www.namebase.io/ https://www.namebase.io/
  • bouncycastle 5y ago
    Yeah, that's what ENS is too. You're not actually registering .eth when you register an ENS. The .eth is intended to be one of many possible TLDs, with the only distinction that .eth is the default one when you first get it. ENS has way more adoption and 3rd party support. I think it's our only hope of overthrowing the incumbents (existing centralized DNS system)
• AgentME 5y ago
  Can regular DNS records (A, AAAA) that resolve to an IP actually be used with ENS? And then are there browsers or browser plugins that support .eth as a TLD? As far as I can tell the ENS ecosystem only has IPFS (and wallet) address support. It's frustrating because ENS seems like the obvious answer for decentralized domains but I've never seen it used for anything but vanity names for ETH wallets and static IPFS sites.