The Paper Napkin Problem

[catbert]

@smacz

Increasing the Verification Code (three characters after the name) to four, or even five characters increases the pool of options exponentially with little to no impact on the Paper Napkin Problem

So our example now is

smacz.vsnzt

not just

smacz.a12

Hmm… okay…

@smacz

To prove ownership of the site, and to discourage transfer of the site … if you wanted to squat while maintaining all of your personas, you would have to create many different accounts and then register all of the accounts as the admins of their particular site … That being said, assuming that both Public Persona and Nickname creations remain free, the only two factors that it employs to slow down squatters are time and processing power, which is not insubstantial.

I’d probably keep a valuable website on a separate account - for security and for sale. No problem to have 20k accounts is it?

Re computational complexity: people are persistent. A million of idiots all registering “google” websites? Also they would start trying for

    .AAA
    .777
    .com
    .000

@smacz

if an entity wished to ‘purchase’ a domain name…

I’d hand them over the whole account right? No problem

@smacz

This leads to being able to say to another user “Go to my location with this Nickname”…

Hmm… isn’t that better done with GNS-style naming described by riddim here?