Handshake.org Reviews and details

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• The Top of the DNS Hierarchy

  Would you consider https://handshake.org to be one? - Source: Hacker News / 2 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 / 9 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 / 10 months ago

• So we did a thing !

  Our stack is built on Handshake. You can know more at handshake.org. Source: 12 months 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: about 1 year ago

• What Type of Programmer Would Have the Most Extensive Knowledge of How DNS Works?

  Without disclosing too much, we're working on something similar to the Handshake protocol but it seems in depth knowledge of DNS topics is hard to find. Source: about 1 year ago

• Domain Registry Takes Sci-Hub’s .SE Domain Name Offline

  Decentralized DNS protocols like handshake were created to circumvent this kind of thing. https://handshake.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Let's Encrypt now supports ACME-CAA: closing the DV loophole

  Whilst blockchain-based domains like Namecoin are great for security they don't go far enough in my opinion. Certificate authorities and DNS infrastructure are heavily centralised at the root level, so something like the Handshake Protocol[1] is a necessary decentralised alternative. [1] https://handshake.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• $850 USD to renew your own .dev domain which is owned by Google, insane

  You can always put your site behind a Handshake[1] or ENS[2] + Limo[3] setup. [1] https://handshake.org/ [2] https://ens.domains/ [3] https://eth.limo/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• DNS Providers as Piracy Fighters?

  I personally think something like Handshake[1] would be ideal. However, a major problem with most of these decentralized "internet alternatives" (including Handshake) is that they aren't designed to be compatible with the existing internet, which creates a chicken-egg problem where site operators don't want to bother supporting your system because it has no users, and users don't want to bother using your system... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Ethereum Development Documentation

  The idea of domains on a blockchain sounds good, but the implementation of many of them and their degrees of 'decentralization' is questionable. ENS is quite frankly a Godaddy-like sub-domain registrar which suffers from the unpredictable gas fee problems on Ethereum as it is implemented on a layer 1 and has centralized key holders for the system and I do not believe that proof-of-stake would be appropriate in... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Can a Proof-of-Work chain use its computing toward real needs?

  Yes, and that is Handshake. [0] A decentralized blockchain based naming and certificate authority. That is the ONLY exceptional case of using proof-of-work that I am willing to accept that makes sense to prevent a repeat of this [1] or this [2] or more TLD takeovers and DNS hijacking attempts like [3] and [4]. [0] https://handshake.org [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21611677 [2]... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Does the Brave browser support Handshake?

  It is experimental, just like the Handshake protocol itself (see https://handshake.org). But it is the recommended way to resolve Handshake in most cases. Source: over 1 year ago

• The endless search for a crypto use case

  ENS (Ethereum Name Service) [0], Handshake (An experimental peer-to-peer root naming system.) are so far the only valid use-cases and a need for a blockchain. Unless you want a repeat of this [2] or someone on the other end changing the domain or address from one to another whenever they want to. [0] https://ens.domains [1] https://handshake.org [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21611677. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• What is Decentralized Web Services?

  Decentralized Web Services (DWS) blockchain is a cloud computing product, which connects multiple decentralized infrastructure solutions like Akash, Sia, Handshake, NYM, and many others under one umbrella. Source: over 1 year ago

• The GNU Name System

  I guess it really does make sense to anchor both .eth, .id, etc on Handshake [1] after all. The concept of ENS is fine for .eth, but it doesn't seem to be enough to prevent this sort of basic confusion. [0] https://twitter.com/matt_willemsen/status/1549017822855983104/photo/1 [1] https://handshake.org. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• BETA: Handshake Domain Support

  You may or may not have heard of Handshake domains. They're a bit new, a bit wild, and opinions will vary. However, this feature has been requested and we're going to concede that the domains are kind of cool. If you want a full look at it, take a look here: https://handshake.org. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Eu.org, free domain names since 1996

  A blockchain could have a mechanism for the domain name to expire unless renewed. For example Handshake [0] does have exactly that. [0] https://handshake.org/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Which EU based privacy focused domain name registrar does this sub recommend?

  If you really hate ICANN that much, checkout handshake.org and fleek.co. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Am I going insane or is there genuinely no value in blockchain tech?

  Agreed about the domains. To add to this, for me the main problem aren't even the domain registrars, but rather the certificate authorities. It is madness that any certificate authority can issue certificates for any domain! With blockchain domains, you can put the public part of your certificate on the blockchain and no one has to trust any third party to issue certificates - the domain owners issue their own... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Handshake Domains - A friendly, decentralized alternative

  Handshake is a decentralized P2P (peer-to-peer) networking protocol aiming to replace DNS. - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago