The Internet Distributed Open Name System project

Posted Dec 2, 2010 9:57 UTC (Thu) by lolando (guest, #7139)
Parent article: The Internet Distributed Open Name System project

I looked at this site looking for references to "Dot-P2P" or "P2P-DNS", and I did the same in reverse on http://p2pdns.baywords.com/ and http://dot-p2p.org/ but I didn't find anything. However, the quasi-simultaneous appearance of two projects aiming at the same thing (distributed DNS without registrars) is surprising if there's no link.

(Coincidentally, I have recently posted my ramblings on the same subject http://roland.entierement.nu/blog/2010/10/02/for-a-truly-... -- but no code or formal design has been done.)

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The Internet Distributed Open Name System project

Posted Dec 3, 2010 17:10 UTC (Fri) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link] (1 responses)

> However, the quasi-simultaneous appearance of two projects aiming at the same thing (distributed DNS without registrars) is surprising if there's no link.

The link is the recent seizure by the US government of 82 domain names, including one bittorrent search engine and two blogs:

http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-seizes-bittorrent-...
http://torrentfreak.com/us-government-responds-to-domain-...
http://rapfix.mtv.com/2010/11/26/onsmash-rapgodfathers-we...

The Internet Distributed Open Name System project

Posted Dec 3, 2010 22:00 UTC (Fri) by freemars (subscriber, #4235) [Link]

The link is the recent seizure by the US government of 82 domain names, including one bittorrent search engine and two blogs:

As well as the DNS woes Wikileaks has been experiencing recently.