On: The Pirate Bay Is A Trailblazer In Technical Resilience

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Can the control over domain names be decentralized to prevent it be single point of failure? Bitcoin may do it for curreny.

.onion pseudo TLD may be the first step in evolution. But the names are 16-bit hashes making it too long and complex.

[implr → non-sense]

Namecoin does this: http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page

[wiml → non-sense]

It's hard to have a global name system with readable/meaningful names unless you have a central organization.

He isn't the first person to make this observation, but Zooko's Triangle is easy to link to, so: https://zooko.com/distnames.html

[derleth → non-sense]

I2P manages human-readable domain names, but not necessarily reliably (the equivalent of DNS is just as distributed and unreliable as the rest of the I2P network).