TLDR: how do I decentralize domains?
- legalscreenshot.com
- legalprintscreen.com
(many links in the description)
Normally domains require trusted third party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN
The idea is to remove trusted third party...
Ceremony looks cool:
But about about physical location of your servers in the US territory?
Zcash ceremony:
In certain areas we still rely on government and corporations:
It's not cheap to put an underwater cable. And it's pretty much a "single" point of failure:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_submarine_cable_disruption
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/06/georgian-woman-cuts-web-access
Now we put satellites into space for less than cost of a cable:
And we can have alternative to ICANN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Root_Server_Network
ORSN was primarily started to reduce the over-dependence of Internet users on the United States and Department of Commerce/IANA/ICANN/VeriSign, limit the control over the Internet that this gives, while ensuring that domain names remain unambiguous. And to avoid the technical possibility of global "Internet shutdown" by one party.
If Metamask in injecting web3, maybe Metamask can inject some DNS settings? And some point decentralization will take over?