RFC - Decentralised Naming System II - continuous auction (by Seneca)

[janitor]

@Seneca

If the two highest ranked addresses under a domain name have both relatively high ranks, the browser doesn’t resolve to the highest, but instead presents a choice to the user, who has to figure out which public key to trust.

This could turn out to be a huge annoyance for full screen apps.
Imagine this stuff popping up on a housemaid while she’s watching a cooking video.

@Seneca

Client software could (privately) store in your SAFE account a list of known (trusted?) public keys.

The need to store trusted keys would mandate the need to interact with the system and upload the list after every session from a different device. One PUT per login (if a new public key is added).

@Seneca

When multiple addresses under a domain name have a high rank (due to a take-over), the browser automatically resolves to the one with the public key that is known (from a previous visit for example).

Which makes it possible for 2 users to go to g00gle.safe and end up on different sites.

@Seneca

It requires wealth to assure your domain. Not everyone may like that.

google.safe would probably never become a target (because they’ll make a crapload of money), but personally I would attack sites like savethechildren.safe and such small-timers - you could bust them for peanuts.

@Seneca

Rank here is simply a numeric value equal to the amount of SafeCoins paid to the network for that address.

One would never know how much he has to pay if the method of calculation was simple.
A sophisticated formula could be created but where would it run?

@Traktion

I actually like the idea that big brands will need to potentially pay big money to keep the domains too.

It’s not the “big brands”, it s everyone.

@catbert

if app writers start assuming presence of one global namespace now this may be impossible to reverse later

So an app vendor hardcodes his app to get some stuff from secure.safe, and a week later secure.safe gets bought by a hacker syndicate.

@whiteoutmashups

Like, they pay SafeCoin to get their rank higher, but also get some sort of rank points based on how many people are using it?

Ugh, as if there already aren’t enough ways to end up on a wrong site!