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I don't have a lot of faith in the namecoin or namecoin-derivative solutions. Just because an agent has a lot of cryptocurrency or hash power doesn't mean they

I don't have a lot of faith in the namecoin or namecoin-derivative solutions. Just because an agent has a lot of cryptocurrency or hash power doesn't mean they should be able to steal or squat a domain. There are security consequences for domain ownership. Users should get to explicitly decide for themselves who owns what domain, or delegate that power to a trusted authority to decide for them. GNS enables this behavior. I think namespacing is a rather poor use-case of this type of consensus.

NoGravitas 4y ago
Yeah, namecoin was a pretty dramatic failure — every interesting domain on it was squatted early on, when it was cheaper to do so.
- aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
  Differing itself from ICANN in what way, exactly?
  - tptacek 4y ago
    In exactly the way stated.
    - User23 4y ago
      I think the point being made was that all the identifiably good DNS names got squatted back in the 90s when they were free.