blockname

I’ve been interested in breaking up hierarchies in the Internet for a while now.

The amount of faith we put into the judicial system to keep the Internet decentralized and free is staggering. Mad respect to EFF, but everytime we have a victory (such as taking down the Clipper Chip in the 90s), it comes back yet again (see: FBI vs Apple).

That’s not even getting into the 2013 NSA disclosures, that demonstrate whatever victories we claim, there are people actively (and illegally) incentivized to ignore them.

The Internet, in its technicality, relies heavily on DNS and root servers.

The problem is it’s heavily centralized. ICANN has run into a lot of criticism, including it’s close relationship with the U.S. government.

There’s a fascinating project that seems to try to combine Bitcoin’s blockchain technology and Telehash’s end-to-end mesh network into a DNS resolver that:

• Removes Centralized authority (ICANN, root servers and registrars)
• Makes end-to-end encryption default
• Uses Bitcoin technology and can be adjusted

This project is so named blockname

It started back in 2014, and was updated a few weeks ago, however any last major commit was done in 2015. It’s about three years old. It’s written 100% in javascript.

It’s currently being tested on a couple of websites, and is working on Testnet.

So far, there’s been three issues, and none have been closed. If there are other communication mediums the (two) contributors are using, I haven’t seen them just yet. There’s around eleven forks but nothing interesting has yet been added by these people. Others are probably testing out the resolving chain.

Deinitely a project to check out.