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So one owned by a company is better? No. This is why .eth domains are great. Ethereum solving yet another problem that HN complains about on the daily, but will
by hanniabu 3y ago
So one owned by a company is better? No. This is why .eth domains are great. Ethereum solving yet another problem that HN complains about on the daily, but will still claim it has no usecase.
- pmlnr 3y agoYou don't understand: most cctlds are in the relevant country's hand, but there are exceptions, like .io. The ones like .eth or .bit are a bad joke. If you want something that's truly yours, generate a .onion.
- rglullis 3y agoEven if it is in the country's hands, it can be taken from a legitimate owner or be abused. That's what parent is talking about. ENS are fully permissionless, no one can take it from you.
- eropple 3y agoNobody can take it from you. Nobody would, either, because they are valueless and nobody uses them. "Use an .onion" is genuinely better advice. (I wouldn't do that either, but an .onion at least has a reason to exist.)
- DANmode 3y agoThis is rude, and valueless.
- pmlnr 3y agoWhat, stating a fact? Who is using .eth and .bit then?
- DANmode 3y agoRegardless of what you or I may think of this web3/Ethereum communities and adjacent, millions have adopted ENS. It's leaking out into normal DNS.
- pmlnr 3y ago>It's leaking out into normal DNS. No, it isn't. I'd never seen a .eth link anywhere on the normal web, yet I've seen plenty of Gemini:// urls, just to throw in something niche for comparison.
- DANmode 3y agoI've seen both. You've discovered network effects in the the wild!
- tredre3 3y ago> millions have adopted ENS Are there really millions of people who use the ENS? Do you have a source? I have no dog in this fight, I'm just curious.
- hanniabu 3y agoMany are using it, you can see here https://esteroids.eth.limo/#/ https://esteroids.eth.limo/#/
- eropple 3y agoCool, what's the actual traffic to them? How many of those aren't the owner? How many of those aren't bots? (Flip those last two questions as you'd like; I wasn't sure which would be more illuminating.)
- eropple 3y agoEthereum weirdos' attempt to financialize the universe at everyone's detriment is a lot ruder, thanks.
- rglullis 3y ago> nobody uses them. If by nobody you mean "no one outside of the mainstream", sure. But I don't need a lot of work to have my .eth domain resolving to an IPFS file, and there are browser extensions that will let you query ethereum blockchain and use it to resolve IP addresses based on ENS.
- redox99 3y ago> they are valueless A lot of them clearly have value, as the "desirable" eth domains sell for thousands of dollars. > "Use an .onion" is genuinely better advice. (I wouldn't do that either, but an .onion at least has a reason to exist.) You seem to be extremely biased against anything related to cryptocurrencies
- mrguyorama 3y agoAnd popular NFTs "sold for" millions, until they only sold for like a hundred bucks. It's all wash trades.
- rglullis 3y agoUnlike "monkey JPEGs", a ENS domain has actual utility. People are not (necessarily) buying it to speculate. They can buy it to use it.
- jeroenhd 3y agoWhat DNS provider supports .eth? Is this one of those Handshake domains?
- redox99 3y ago.eth domains are supported out of the box with Brave, and on other browsers (like Chrome) if you have Metamask installed.
- WeylandYutani 3y agoThere are dozens of us. DOZENS
- wwtdtgotiatl 3y agoSmarmy reddit-esque comments like this don't belong on HN. Please read the guidelines. As for numbers: > In April 2023, Brave Browser reported 57.27 million monthly active users. > There are more than 21 million monthly active users of Metamask.
- DANmode 3y agocrickets
- hanniabu 3y agoIt's different than handshake, it's built on Ethereum https://docs.ens.domains/contract-api-reference/dns-registrar https://docs.ens.domains/contract-api-reference/dns-registra...
- riffic 3y agono one's going to an unresolvable namespace buddy.