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ugh this kind of stuff just makes me wish DNS was less centralized, even though it's already incredibly uncentralized.. of course it's just all registrars just
by ailurooo 2y ago
ugh this kind of stuff just makes me wish DNS was less centralized, even though it's already incredibly uncentralized.. of course it's just all registrars just being a weak point.. as always
- TZubiri 2y agoIt is as decentralized as you can get. Dns is the entire foundation of decentralization, any more and you get into schizo hyperprivacy protocols.
- viraptor 2y agoIt's federated, not decentralized. For decentralized you need something like https://ens.domains/ https://ens.domains/
- TZubiri 2y agoAre there any well established definitions for these terms as separate?
- viraptor 2y agoYes? Basically half of them? Some people put federation in decentralised group, some say only distributed is decentralised. In short: centralised = 1 owner/operator, federated = many semi-autonomous operators to choose from, decentralised/distributed = everyone's an operator on the same level. With DNS you still have groups of operators who can tell you what to do and they have the main agencies on top of that. I subscribe to the "it's not really decentralised" view.
- TZubiri 2y agoSource: It came to me in a dream.
- viraptor 2y agoAlternatively, do a quick search for "decentralised vs federated" yourself. People here don't owe you basic explanations.
- TZubiri 2y agoIt's not that I am dumb and I am asking for help with info. I'm questioning the existence of this, there is no reliable source because these are not standard terms in any discipline. It's not that you are not giving me source because your time is valuable and I'm dumb. It's because there is no source and these concepts don't have any standard rigorous definition. https://www.google.com/search?q=decentralized+vs+federated https://www.google.com/search?q=decentralized+vs+federated Google gives me trash. These are trash concepts, nothing written by academics or professionals or standard textbooks, or proceedings of magazines or publications. Just blogs and cryptonerds (with different definitions).
- jstanley 2y agoSo, it's not as decentralised as you can get, you just personally don't like decentralisation?
- TZubiri 2y ago*Without descending into a madness that decentralizes your very thought process and identity
- remram 2y agoThe network is decentralized, but each domain still has a single registrar, making the service you (domain owner) receive very centralized. If that one registrar misbehaves or is unresponsive, you're out of luck.
- TZubiri 2y agoYou can switch registrars if you want.
- remram 2y agoThis requires cooperation from your current registrar, and involves the registry operator for your TLD which is again a single entity.
- TZubiri 2y agoYou are consistently objectively wrong on the facts. So your subjective take that dns is decentralized is again wrong. You can choose different TLDs. Don't like VeriSign's .com? Go with a country tld or make your own tld. Also tld are regulated it isn't even an independent private entity. Finally switching registrars does NOT require cooperation of the losing registrar, but of the upstream DNS. The sane take is just don't chose a meme registrar from a bullshit country just because it sounds like something else.
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