Handshake.org mentions (60)

• The Top of the DNS Hierarchy

  Would you consider https://handshake.org to be one? - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Own full personal domain name without .com etc.

  It's based on the handshake blockchain https://handshake.org/ and yes, it's outside of DNS from what I have read. I originally assumed that had bought 1,000,000 TLD at $240k each :) which is crazy as its sounds. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Vickrey Auction

  The Handshake [0] project used (uses?) Vickrey auction to auction off the initial supply of names. It had some other cool ideas, such as replacing certificate authorities with self-signed certificates verified by the blockchain. I know everyone hates blockchain, I kind of do too, but Handshake I found genuinely interesting. Disclaimer, I own some Handshake names so you could say I'm shilling for it but mostly the... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• So we did a thing !

  Our stack is built on Handshake. You can know more at handshake.org. Source: about 1 year ago

• ELI5: How do internet domains work? Who are you paying?

  In the future things might change, there's discussions around decentralization of trust that now has accumulated with a select few (donut domains? Verisign?) Handshake is one such protocol that allows you to have decentralized trust and hence gives you freedom to have your own TLD, porkbun will even sell you one if you'd like but it's very much experimental today. Source: over 1 year ago

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