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by palisade 2880 days ago
"If you own a name in the existing root zone or the Alexa top 100k, your name is waiting for you on the blockchain. You are able to claim it by publishing a DNSSEC ownership proof – a cryptographic proof that you own the name on ICANN’s system. Your name must have a valid DNSSEC setup in order for the claim to be created. If you do not have DNSSEC set up, don’t worry – you can set it up after the handshake blockchain launches and proofs will still be accepted retroactively."

https://handshake-org.github.io/guides/claims.html
1 comments
RileyJames 2880 days ago
I’m confused, and after skimming through the paper I’m still not sure.

How does this work after the handshake network launches?

If I register a new domain with ICANN, but do not register it with Handshake, can someone else? And if not, doesn’t that mean ICANN is still the central authority for domain names? (Including transfers)

It seems like the existing root zone & handshake will immediately fork, and then how will 3rd parties determines which root zone is correct? Doesn’t that still mean existing CA’s could simply update the root zone (regardless of handshake) (which is the existing problem with bad actor CA’s).

I’m probably missing something here, could anyone elaborate?

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palisade 2880 days ago
My understanding of it is that 100,000+ are in reserve for existing companies / sites already registered. All you have to do is contact them to let them know, with proof, that you want ownership of yours. After launch there will be a "sunrise" period where if you register with ICANN, and then provide proof to handshake, they will give you ownership. I'm not sure how long that period lasts, I'm guessing for a long time until they feel ICANN is no longer relevant if I had to guess.

The goal of the project seems admirable. Potentially, this can help fund open source initiatives which are sorely underfunded while solving the "how do we find a domain in a decentralized way and verify its trust" issue that currently exists. I suppose time will tell, though.

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xur17 2879 days ago
My understanding is that all current tlds (.com, .net, .org, etc) will be claimable once the service launches. In addition, everyone in the Alexa 100k will be able to claim their domain stripped of the tld, so example.com gets .example, root.com gets .root. Handshake is only handling top level domains - dns will continue to handle resolving of subdomains.

Icaan will continue to be relevant, this will just control all other tlds.

This is just my understanding after doing some reading last night - someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

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