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by troquerre 2516 days ago
I work at Namebase. Handshake is compatible with ENS actually because Handshake has reserved .eth for ENS names. Since Handshake decentralizes the top-level namespace, Handshake can serve as a gateway to other naming systems like ENS and Namecoin.
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Um, please tell me more :)

It can do that or it does do that? Also, ENS doesn't typically resolve to an IP but instead a swarm hash or a block address, what would end up resolving in those cases?

The way the the ENS integration would work is the DNS request for vitalik.eth would end up at a Handshake Authoritative Name Server and then there are certain blacklisted top level domains (.onion, .tor, .i2p, .bit and a few others) where a client for that protocol is instantiated and then a request is sent out to the appropriate system and then the response would be formatted into a DNS query by the Handshake Name Server and sent back to the client.

Not implemented yet, but this is where one would implement it https://github.com/handshake-org/hsd/blob/master/lib/dns/ser... https://github.com/handshake-org/hnsd/blob/master/src/ns.c#L...