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I got pretty excited when I saw that and tried to find some use cases for it as soon as I enabled NextDNS. But I couldn't find any use case where it would make domain management easier. In fact it seemed overly complicated with it being auction based and having to use a cryptocurrency.

Have you found Handshake useful in any way?

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Right now most of the sites are personal projects and toy sites. You can check out some of them here https://github.com/NamebaseHQ/Awesome-Handshake. For my personal use, I set up tieshun.txt to point to my personal todo.txt file, and I use watchman to rsync my local todo.txt to tieshun.txt so I can access it from all my devices. I could also set up todo.tieshunroquerre.com for this but I find that tieshun.txt is much more convenient to use.

I bought tieshun.txt on https://gateway.io (in beta). The owner of .txt set up their own registry and they're selling .txt domains. That's another aspect of Handshake that I'm excited about. To get an ICANN TLD you need to be a big corporation that can pay for the $200k application fee (and you're not even guaranteed to get the name), whereas anyone can create a registry on their own TLD with Handshake.

The cryptocurrency aspect is unintuitive (if possible it would've been ideal to not require it), but it's actually needed in order to have a more secure root of trust alternative to CAs. This article expands on this point: https://www.namebase.io/blog/meet-handshake-decentralizing-d...

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