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Doesn't NameCoin (a blockchain to store name/values, i.e. decentralized DNS) solve this problem without the need for DNS servers (browsers hold a copy of blockc

• contingencies 13y ago
  Distributed consensus algorithms in general, including all blockchain systems, could solve the registrar issue. Then you just need to solve the squatting problem. Governments have never been required, they are just what grows out of a geographically delimited, naturally re-occuring monopoly on violence in human societies.
  • dragonwriter 13y ago
    > Governments have never been required, they are just what grows out of a geographically delimited, naturally re-occuring monopoly on violence in human societies. Governments aren't what "grows out of that", governments are that. You are presenting the definition of government as if it was an explanation of the source of government.
  • bikamonki 13y ago
    Squatting is not a problem: you just cannot use a registered brand name w/out permission. Period. Now, let's look at it the other way around: using the new TLDs I tried to register iloveto.run but my registrar explained that I now need additional paperwork in order to first register the brand name (or prove that I already own it) and then request ICANN for the domain registration (not granted that I will get it even then). Who has the money and time for this bs process? Big corp. So I presume that Nike, Adidas et al will fight (legally) each other to register every imaginable combination of words plus .run? Fuck it, squatting or not we need to decentralize the DNS. It will be like the gold rush: who ever gets there first deserves it.