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by janus24 1811 days ago
Building a product to help decentralize but using Google Form to registrer, no logic here.
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cartoonworld 1811 days ago
Well, dredging up useless facts from the old cobweb attic, back in the 80's if you wanted to have a domain name you had to give Jon Postel a ring[0] and ask politely for him to manually edit the zone.

I suppose you gotta start somewhere, "worse is better" MVP and so on.

[0] - http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/history.htm

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jaywalk 1811 days ago
I'd argue that the difference here is that we do have the technology to collect data these days, and relying on Google Forms is simply laziness.
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cartoonworld 1811 days ago
>relying on Google Forms is simply laziness.

Oh, of course it is!

Much better than email, telephone, or possibly IRC, as you can use Zapier or IFTT to semi-automate the preformatted requests.

Classic MVP; probably whipped up on a coffee break. Nice one, IPFS

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fwip 1811 days ago
It's centralized domain-name registration, so there's no point to using decentralized tech to manage registration.
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orf 1811 days ago
No logic to this comment either.
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