[tynes]

> If names have to be renewed on a year-by-year basis, is there any mechanism for archival? Won't this be strictly worse for link rot?

Blockchains are good for timestamping. The records on chain can be tracked over time but this doesn't solve the problem of when the blockchain authoritative name server delegates to the tld's authoritative name server. Maybe the tld nameserver could index the records in a git like data structure and be able to serve queries with a time parameter