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by tynes 2316 days ago
In blockchains, there is a difference between consensus and policy. The way that the Handshake recursive resolver works is not based on consensus. This means that people can insert rules for delegating a particular request to ICANN or to the Handshake authoritative resolver. It currently checks the Handshake authoritative resolver first, then falls back to ICANN.

If this behavior is easily configurable/shared and open source, then people can opt into whatever configuration that best suites their needs.

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Awesome, that's good to hear! Sounds like a pretty easy fix then. Users just need to configure the recursive DNS resolver to delegate existing TLDs to ICANN and that fixes the compatibility issue. I might actually give that a try at some point.