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The closest thing there is right now would be ENS - the E stands for Ethereum.

ENS domain names can mainly be used for payment for now, so I'd be sending crypto to [domain].eth where the advantage is having a readable address instead of a random-looking string.

You can also host web pages on it (which I believe is helped by their IPFS) but that has seen limited use as of yet.

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I work at Namebase. Handshake is compatible with ENS actually because Handshake has reserved .eth for ENS names. Since Handshake decentralizes the top-level namespace, Handshake can serve as a gateway to other naming systems like ENS and Namecoin.

Um, please tell me more :)

It can do that or it does do that? Also, ENS doesn't typically resolve to an IP but instead a swarm hash or a block address, what would end up resolving in those cases?

The way the the ENS integration would work is the DNS request for vitalik.eth would end up at a Handshake Authoritative Name Server and then there are certain blacklisted top level domains (.onion, .tor, .i2p, .bit and a few others) where a client for that protocol is instantiated and then a request is sent out to the appropriate system and then the response would be formatted into a DNS query by the Handshake Name Server and sent back to the client.

Not implemented yet, but this is where one would implement it https://github.com/handshake-org/hsd/blob/master/lib/dns/ser... https://github.com/handshake-org/hnsd/blob/master/src/ns.c#L...

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