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Tangential by related technical question: Does something exist out there which is equivalent to a domain name for a website (or an any entity) which is indepen
by dennis_jeeves1 4y ago
Tangential by related technical question:
Does something exist out there which is equivalent to a domain name for a website (or an any entity) which is independent of a external entities, like DNS or DNS like servers.
I know that in some sense public/private keys in asymmetric cryptography mimic that feature (the public key being the address of the receiver), but is there anything out of the box? Does Tor have a similar feature?
I do understand that this equivalent to which I'm alluding to, may be an unintelligible string of characters, unlike current website user friendly names. I also understand that the underlying ip address change can be a challenge , but probably not an insurmountable one.
- Thoreandan 4y agoThere's things like purl-dot-org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_uniform_resource_locator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_uniform_resource_lo... or .onion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.onion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.onion e.g. http://p53lf57qovyuvwsc6xnrppyply3vtqm7l6pcobkmyqsiofyeznfu5uqd.onion/ http://p53lf57qovyuvwsc6xnrppyply3vtqm7l6pcobkmyqsiofyeznfu5... will be up even if the propublica.org domain is broken / disabled.
- dennis_jeeves1 4y agoThanks, between the 2 if you had to choose one, which would you recommend?
- dennis_jeeves1 4y agoThink I found atleast one answer from: https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/how-to-create-a-onion-address/ https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/how-to-create-a-onion-addres...: When you type a .onion address into your Tor browser, unlike with a regular domain, you are not looking up an IP address on a DNS server. Instead, you are asking a Hidden Service directory, which anybody can volunteer to run.
- _glass 4y agoMaybe like ENS? https://ens.domains/ https://ens.domains/