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What are the alternatives to these centralizing naming services? I guess most people don't even use direct url address for anything. I often see people looking
by psychoslave 2y ago
What are the alternatives to these centralizing naming services?
I guess most people don't even use direct url address for anything. I often see people looking for "google" in the adress/search bar before searching the term from which they expect the link to the website they are looking for.
So given this pattern, I don't feel like the domain name is something relevant for most end users.
For a static page, or any autonomous js spaghetti, it's easy to simply save the document locally.
As soon as some updatability comes in, like a comment section, then the issue of having a way to track a distant resource really becomes relevant. IP offer no guarantees of stability of resource provider. A domain name ensures transparent IP transition as long as the domain lessee is willing and able to pay the bill. This latter point is actually a very concrete security concern, which alone should bring enough consideration to look for other approaches.
- tliltocatl 2y agoIMHO Namecoin/.bit was the only blockchain technology that could actually have been somewhat useful. Didn't catch on and now the blockchain have got so much bad optics that it probably never will.
- shakiXBT 2y agohave you looked into ENS (https://ens.domains https://ens.domains) ? It's everything namecoin wanted to be and more. Also probably the only real usecase for NFTs besides pure collecting and speculation
- psychoslave 2y agoI’m not fond of crypto though, so I’ll be more interested with other approaches.
- tliltocatl 2y agoYes, that's exactly my point.
- hitpointdrew 2y ago> So given this pattern, I don't feel like the domain name is something relevant for most end users. Oh but it is, even if the user doesn’t realize it. How are you going to do SSL without a domain name? I don’t know of any provider that is trusted by a major browser, that will issue ssl certs for an ip instead of a domain name. You could use your own CA but no browser will accept it, and your visitors will be greeted with a browser warning.
- cxr 2y agohttps://1.1.1.1/ https://1.1.1.1/
- hitpointdrew 2y agoThis redirects to “https:/:one.one.one.one”, which is a domain name.
- cxr 2y agoYou mean a redirect to <https://one.one.one.one/ https://one.one.one.one/>, but that's beside the point. Can you or can't you get a certificate for an IP address to "do SSL" (TLS) that is trusted by major browsers?