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by kang 3270 days ago
ENS is a great example of a centralised system plus its only about eth based names, no application other than just a method by to collect money by the platform for offering services that are only about the platform and work in the platform.
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chejazi 3270 days ago
ENS is implemented as a set of smart contracts with some multisig management. Are you arguing that this is centralized? Also, money that is collected by the ENS contracts is only held as a deposit.
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kang 3270 days ago
Yes, I am arguing it is centralised. Read about the centralised root signature system that is the way to add new TLDs to the system.

Also this is worse than the current system we have in the world because it wastes more energy in doing so!

It claims it is a decentralised naming system, though looking deeper you will find it is just clever marketing and underneath is it is only ethereum-platform based naming for anything like your address etc. will only work in eth browsers, not all etc. which I have already mentioned in my OP.

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chejazi 3270 days ago
> it is only ethereum-platform based naming for anything like your address etc.

The "etc" is important here, because it refers to richer resources such as content hashes. With this, you could load the entire "frontend" for a website from a decentralized datasource, e.g. Swarm. Meanwhile, the backend could be the Ethereum blockchain/smart contract methods.

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kang 3270 days ago
No etc is not important because it is essentially a centralized mapping of a string of text to another, thats all.
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nicksdjohnson 3270 days ago
You seem to have very (some would say ridiculously) high standards for 'decentralised'.

If the root multisig was deleted, would it be 'decentralised' in your book?

> It claims it is a decentralised naming system, though looking deeper you will find it is just clever marketing and underneath is it is only ethereum-platform based naming for anything like your address etc. will only work in eth browsers, not all etc. which I have already mentioned in my OP.

It doesn't claim to be DNS. DNS is not the only naming system.

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nicksdjohnson 3270 days ago
What's centralised about ENS?

Also, it can be used to resolve any resource you want - although you're shifting the goalposts, since that wasn't originally a requirement.

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kang 3270 days ago
1. the whole blockchain it is based on 2. root signatures in ENS
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nicksdjohnson 3270 days ago
Okay, I'll bite. What's 'centralised' about Ethereuem, without twisting the word beyond all recognition?
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