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There are alternatives to DNS, like GNS (GNU Name System): https://www.gnunet.org/en/gns.html https://www.gnunet.org/en/gns.html
by nairboon 1y ago
There are alternatives to DNS, like GNS (GNU Name System): https://www.gnunet.org/en/gns.html https://www.gnunet.org/en/gns.html
- doublerabbit 1y agoOpennic too, they even allow you to host your own tld. https://opennic.org/ https://opennic.org/ It's getting harder to change DNS settings on Windows, even systemd makes it a PITA to update DNS entries.
- ryangibb 1y agoThe difficulty with the GNS is getting the public keys that enable the decentralisation. Key signing parties seem to have their limits. There’s a bunch of alternative DNS roots out there, that are similarly hierarchical, but really interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root#Implementations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root#Implement...
- idiotsecant 1y agoOr, at the risk of saying the unpopular thing, Ethereum Name Service? (ENS) This sort of thing is pretty much exactly what ENS is for.