[theamk]

Yes, I have heard the solutions it provides. But what are corresponding problems do those things solve? I can come up with some examples:

“I really hate suffixes, so I want my address to be myproject and not myproject.io”

“I have a business idea which requires me to be a TLD, but I don’t have a ton of money to pay for it”

“I don’t think ICANN dispute resolution process will work in my favor, so I would like to get a domain name not subject to it”

“I think the blockchains are the future, and I really want people to use them”

...but I think they either have a better solution, or not worth trying to deploy yet another domain name system.

[troquerre]

Handshake can improve how security on the Internet works. There are also geopolitical reasons for why it's important: https://www.namebase.io/blog/meet-handshake-decentralizing-d... https://www.namebase.io/blog/you-can-make-a-difference