[verdverm]

It is not the same as Namecoin.

Handshake at it's core is a decentralized root zone of trust, the equivalent of ICANN. It's up to people building on it to create the registrars and such.

Previous experiments were for one TLD like .bit or .eth

With Handshake, every possible TLD is released over 52 weeks

Even more so, it works with existing DNS infrastructure and tools. All it is doing is allowing for all TLDs and resolving them (with preference for ICANN / HNS) where the overlap occurs. It was built from the start to exist along side today's systems.