Thx for highlighting this. If Handshake becomes a viable system it will def. serve as an important milestone for making web3 viable. Problem is this is not the type of project that is getting significant attention or funding.
ENS is an example of a project that is extant, working, and has a decent amount of funding (controlled democratically through a delegated token voting system). Here's my ENS record:
What I like about handshake is that you can own the TLD. I own searchableguy/ top level domain. This is gated by ICANN right now and they charge huge fees for nothing.
yeah, it links to a standard JSON format for my article. mirror's data is portable. the json also contains my signature which authenticates the post to my self-sovereign identity (the keypair associated with my ENS name).
https://app.ens.domains/name/suzuha.eth/details
also, my post is on arweave, one of the cryptoeconomic data availability layers mentioned on the post:
https://3m44zon3blpnpjs3neglffbhqaibvuaeofkln2rd645dvky7cblq...