[dns-operations] blockchain DNS

[Andrew Sullivan]

This is a proposal that has all the problems of DNS _and_ all the problems 
of any blockchain system. Why is it good?  What is it that we are supposed 
to need blockchain to solve?  Obviously you _can_ build a system of 
identifiers on something like blockchain, but I would like advocates to say 
why.

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On January 27, 2018 9:48:07 AM Peng Yonghua <hua at dnsbed.com> wrote:

> There is another article for hosting a DNS domain on the blockchain:
> https://hackernoon.com/hosting-a-dns-domain-on-the-blockchain-58a41dc50028
>
> 2018-01-26 22:54 GMT+08:00 Mark Jeftovic <markjr at easydns.com>:
>
>>
>>
>> Peng Yonghua wrote:
>> > greetings,
>> >
>> > Today I read some articles about blockchain based DNS,such as:
>> >
>> > https://wiki.emercoin.com/en/EMCDNS
>> > https://blockchain-dns.info/
>> > ...
>> >
>> > Would you think blockchain will change DNS world with uncentered way in
>> > future?
>> >
>>
>> I think this already starting to happen.
>>
>> In the examples you sent, the blockchain-dns is just a browser plugin
>> method, so not really DNS. EMCDNS seems to be full on DNS but I've never
>> heard of it before now, thanks for sending.
>>
>> My opinion is that:
>>
>> - in certain situations, blockchain lends itself to DNS as being more
>> distributed and more redundant than some of the TLDs out there. This is
>> attractive to me because it would be more resistant to standard DDoS
>> attacks (but then the size of the blockchain would determine
>> vulnerability to 51% attacks)
>>
>> There are also scaling issues, I would never expect or posit something
>> like .COM to be moved onto a blockchain.
>>
>> But I've long wondered if there is a hybrid option where we have a
>> blockchain where one can pin DNS RR's can act as a kind of "lookaside"
>> for mission critical domains - but that would necessitate resolvers
>> being aware of it.
>>
>> - the crypto space is here to stay, and the addressing scheme they all
>> use are begging for a naming system, the same necessity that gave rise
>> to DNS exists in this space and has not been solved yet.
>>
>> There was Namecoin, as P.O.C but was more about being a fully
>> decentralized TLD without governance but as I've often remarked to these
>> crypto types "believe it or not, you actually *want* some kind of
>> governance".
>>
>> Ethereum Name Service (ENS) seems out in front right now, I attended the
>> first ENS WG meeting in London UK last summer and there is a *lot* of
>> momentum here. They are incorporating DNSSEC into ENS validation and are
>> looking for full interoperability with legacy DNS.
>>
>> The .XYZ registry is working with ENS WG to integrate .xyz domains into
>> ENS so that example.xyz can be used as an ethereum contract or wallet
>> address. See:
>>
>> https://medium.com/the-ethereum-name-service/how-to-
>> claim-your-dns-domain-on-ens-e600ef2d92ca
>>
>> - I have been thinking that it may be a good idea to add a new DNS
>> RRType that can be used to reference "Blockchain Resources", along the
>> lines of a NAPTR record, so a "BCR" or "BCRPTR" which would reference
>> things like
>>
>>         * which crypto-currency / blockchain
>>         * which address type within that blockchain
>>
>> If anybody is interested in this please let me know, I've been
>> s-l-o-w-l-y organizing a working group to draft a spec proposal for
>> this, I've never done anything like that before.
>>
>> I gave a short talk on where I see this all going at the ENS WG meeting
>> last year:
>>
>> https://www.easydns.com/blog/2017/09/19/dns-on-blockchain-
>> ethereum-name-service-ens-vrm-and-governance-oh-my/
>>
>> - mark
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mark Jeftovic <markjr at easydns.com>
>> Founder & CEO, easyDNS Technologies Inc.
>> http://www.easyDNS.com
>>
>>
>>
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