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by DrewADesign 240 days ago
I wouldn’t say it’s the worst… a largely decentralized worldwide namespace is not an easy thing to tackle and for the most part it totally works.
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I actually think the design of DNS is really cool. I'm sure we could do better designing from a clean slate today, especially around security (designing with the assumption of an adversarial environment).

But DNS was designed in the 80s! It's actually a minor miracle it works as well as it does