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Couldn't this whole project be undermined by ICANN opening up .bit for registration with the current dns system?
by gerggerg 15y ago
Couldn't this whole project be undermined by ICANN opening up .bit for registration with the current dns system?
- krig 15y agoPresumably, anyone friendly to the alternative DNS effort (ie. anyone running a .bit-capable DNS) would serve the p2p .bit domains over the ICANN domain that case. Although it would certainly be interesting.
- marshray 15y agoICANN's current stated policy is to not cause technical problems. For example, they will never open up .local. But if people start succeeding in popularizing whatever TLDs they want, maybe ICANN would change that policy just to screw with them. Still .bit isn't going to work today without special configuration, so it's not at all clear that publishing it from the root servers would break anyone that was already successfully using it.