<story><title>Decentralized DNS with the Handshake Naming System</title><url>https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/08/private-internet-access-users-can-now-resolve-internet-names-with-the-handshake-naming-system-hns/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mugsie</author><text>Yeah, because I want to have to mine a token every time I update my DNS settings. -_-&lt;p&gt;I get the &amp;quot;global, transparent, append only log&amp;quot; appeal, but for the reality of most people, I don&amp;#x27;t want to rely on a blockchain converging, or processing my update in a certain amount of time.&lt;p&gt;And that doesn&amp;#x27;t even cover companies (I don&amp;#x27;t agree with this, but it is a reality), that consider DNS entries private, and don&amp;#x27;t want to expose an easily scannable list of DNS entries .</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deweller</author><text>If this gains traction, you will be able to pay a service provider a fee to update DNS entries for you.  This is like the current system used by registrars.  You don&amp;#x27;t need to care if it is powered by a blockchain in the background if you don&amp;#x27;t want to.&lt;p&gt;I think it is great to have an alternative DNS system that is more censorship resistant.</text></comment>
<story><title>Decentralized DNS with the Handshake Naming System</title><url>https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/08/private-internet-access-users-can-now-resolve-internet-names-with-the-handshake-naming-system-hns/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mugsie</author><text>Yeah, because I want to have to mine a token every time I update my DNS settings. -_-&lt;p&gt;I get the &amp;quot;global, transparent, append only log&amp;quot; appeal, but for the reality of most people, I don&amp;#x27;t want to rely on a blockchain converging, or processing my update in a certain amount of time.&lt;p&gt;And that doesn&amp;#x27;t even cover companies (I don&amp;#x27;t agree with this, but it is a reality), that consider DNS entries private, and don&amp;#x27;t want to expose an easily scannable list of DNS entries .</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>StavrosK</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t this middlebrow dismissal? Like, I get that you don&amp;#x27;t want to have to &amp;quot;mine a token&amp;quot; if &amp;quot;mining a token&amp;quot; means &amp;quot;waiting half an hour&amp;quot;, but if it means &amp;quot;waiting 100ms or paying $0.00001&amp;quot;, I&amp;#x27;d take that tradeoff to own my DNS.</text></comment>