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

[happybeing]

I haven’t read about the i2p system, but what you describe could certainly be built on top of whatever we start with.

I think it fits well into the approach I outline below, which is to help users choose what is appropriate to them rather than waste time trying to build a bullet proof naming system that can always be circumvented:

Protocol://Domain.Subdomain/Path

I think it will be very hard to stop the creation of code that harms people, whether a DNS, an app, or a website, so I don’t think we can make the underlying network only support a safe [cough] resolution service. Hence I don’t see network side blacklists, reserving tlds etc as any more effective than @urrtag’s suggestion that the initial NRS be limiting client side, eg with an modifiable blacklist. We could make the blacklist configurable, updateable, and optional to reduce the incentive to c…