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The handshake team itself has never used language like "overthrow", and have carefully designed the system to work with DNS, not necessarily replace it. From t

The handshake team itself has never used language like "overthrow", and have carefully designed the system to work with DNS, not necessarily replace it. From their FAQ: > Does Handshake replace DNS? No. Handshake is meant to replace the root zone file, not DNS. Browsing the web with human readable names is what Internet users have gotten acclimated to. Our solution allows for a seamless transition between a centralized name root zone file controlled by private parties to a decentralized root zone file controlled by actual Internet users. The Handshake blockchain itself is essentially one big distributed zone file in which anyone has the right to add an entry in. https://handshake.org/faq/ https://handshake.org/faq/

verdverm 5y ago
They have in fact used phrases like "overthrow" and "collision course" You have to look at their behavior and communications over time and beyond their website Some of the community wants to aggressively replace ICANN, that is the context, not changing how DNS works. https://github.com/handshake-org/hs-names/issues/6#issuecomment-628658791 https://github.com/handshake-org/hs-names/issues/6#issuecomm... This is the flaw, being an uncooperative community member in the DNS ecosystem
- evbots 5y ago
  the context for that comment is that handshake took a snapshot of the icann namespace. so any names icann adds or changes after the fact will conflict with the HNS namespace.
  - verdverm 5y ago
    The comment is the start of a longer thread that is one data point in understanding how HNS would rather be adversarial than cooperative, from my perspective and others. Much of the crypto public speak is about replacing rather than enhancing existing systems. There is no join, only beat. They would likely become the very thing they desire to replace. It's human nature
    - evbots 5y ago
      There are factions within crypto, some think the "end of history" looks like crypto replacing centralized systems. others (like myself) think those systems are complements and simply alternatives in the marketplace. As to being adversarial... ICANN was allocated 1.2% of the total HNS supply, and all existing TLD owners (at the time of the snapshot) can claim their TLDs on chain. The icann allocation is 5.8% of the current circulating supply. i suppose there could have been a way to give ICANN a blank check to modify the handshake namespace in perpetuity, but i suspect that might either be technically unworkable or just made the whole venture pointless.
- SkyMarshal 5y ago
  The word "overthrow" is not used anywhere in that thread. "Collision" is used 26 times, mainly referring to name collisions between different root zone domains or to the ICANN NCAP project (Name Collision Analysis Project). "Collision Course" is used only once, by a contributor who was not part of the original Handshake team but joined and became a major contributor later. Hardly representative of the entire community, and definitely not of the founding team.

verdverm 5y ago

They have in fact used phrases like "overthrow" and "collision course" You have to look at their behavior and communications over time and beyond their website Some of the community wants to aggressively replace ICANN, that is the context, not changing how DNS works. https://github.com/handshake-org/hs-names/issues/6#issuecomment-628658791 https://github.com/handshake-org/hs-names/issues/6#issuecomm... This is the flaw, being an uncooperative community member in the DNS ecosystem

evbots 5y ago
the context for that comment is that handshake took a snapshot of the icann namespace. so any names icann adds or changes after the fact will conflict with the HNS namespace.
- verdverm 5y ago
  The comment is the start of a longer thread that is one data point in understanding how HNS would rather be adversarial than cooperative, from my perspective and others. Much of the crypto public speak is about replacing rather than enhancing existing systems. There is no join, only beat. They would likely become the very thing they desire to replace. It's human nature
  - evbots 5y ago
    There are factions within crypto, some think the "end of history" looks like crypto replacing centralized systems. others (like myself) think those systems are complements and simply alternatives in the marketplace. As to being adversarial... ICANN was allocated 1.2% of the total HNS supply, and all existing TLD owners (at the time of the snapshot) can claim their TLDs on chain. The icann allocation is 5.8% of the current circulating supply. i suppose there could have been a way to give ICANN a blank check to modify the handshake namespace in perpetuity, but i suspect that might either be technically unworkable or just made the whole venture pointless.
SkyMarshal 5y ago
The word "overthrow" is not used anywhere in that thread. "Collision" is used 26 times, mainly referring to name collisions between different root zone domains or to the ICANN NCAP project (Name Collision Analysis Project). "Collision Course" is used only once, by a contributor who was not part of the original Handshake team but joined and became a major contributor later. Hardly representative of the entire community, and definitely not of the founding team.