[remmargorp64]

I consider DNS and the way how top level domains are handled to be one of the weakest parts of our current Internet design.

We REALLY need a truly decentralized, distributed DNS system that is not owned by private entities.

[the8472]

DNS is far less of a single point of failure and more decentralized than cloudflare. Nameservers can and are operated redundantly via simple, resolver-side round-robin scheduling and the TLD servers should have longer TTLs that allow plenty of caching. The rootzone even has anycast thanks to using UDP. Take a moment to look at DoH and laugh.

You can also also register your domain on multiple TLDs.

[q3k]

DNS worked just fine throughout this. You're barking up the wrong tree.

[hpfr]

https://handshake.org is pretty interesting.

[spenczar5]

The "decentralized internet" folks always talk a lot about fighting corporate control. I think they should spend more time talking about resiliency and blast-radius reduction.

[ghastmaster]

I just recently ran across this. I wonder how much performance would be degraded.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7530014/authors#authors

> Unlike previous DNS replacement proposals, D 3 NS is reverse compatible with DNS and allows for incremental implementation within the current system.

[xen2xen1]

DNS is decentralized, it's just not when everyone goes with one big service.

[remmargorp64]

It might be decentralized, but how do you actually get a .com domain name without going through some kind of corporate gatekeeping or paying a fee?

[tenebrisalietum]

I'm down for passing around a GPG signed hosts2.txt file. Let's get started.