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by AnthonyMouse 1655 days ago
> All voting systems require protection against Sybil attacks.

The voting system is the protection against Sybil attacks. A successful Sybil attack would allow you to add your own TLDs, but if you can't already do that then you can't do a Sybil attack.

The real issue with that kind of system is deciding on the initial group of voters.

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How do the existing group of voters prove to themselves that the to-be-added voter is actually a unique person, and not a sockpuppet? If it’s something like a government ID, then they’ve outsourced the Sybil protection, and not actually gotten rid of it.
What stops me adding 10000000000 fake users and having them all vote for my new TLD?