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We should have a peer-to-peer DNS driven by some consensus system like blockchain. Why do we allow critical pieces of internet infrastructure to be centralized?

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There is no mandate to trust the root DNS servers. Someone like Google (8.8.8.8) or Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) could just start registering their own .org domain names and nobody could stop them.

The resulting shitstorm would be so enjoyable to watch.

Given the headwinds the browser DNS-over-https efforts have run into, I wouldn't expect them to want to try it.

But I was pondering the merits of eg: a regional block of ISPs declaring they'd like to try, and seeing the effect that had on the value of the 'legacy operators'

Previously the CEO of Cloudflare has been against making 1.1.1.1 return anything non-standard, because even a single instance of that would ruin the integrity of DNS.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19829033

Yeah, that's a very reasonable stance. I'm not saying it's a good idea to hijack .org, just that it's more possible than one might think.

There are a few of these already. Etherium Name Service[1] NameCoin [2] presumably many others.

[1]https://ens.domains/ [2]https://www.namecoin.org/

Interesting. Thanks!

What a shitfest this would be. How much money do you think some governments would be willing to spend to take over the entire DNS system? Don't you see what they did to Bitcoin?

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