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phelix wrote: No, most of the time you will only get the IP address of a relaying node and you can never know if you got the right one.

That's what I get for hastily reading industry "white papers"!

Could we just move to a managed forum and wiki service? It would reduce the overhead we are spending on administration and the software would be kept up to date (the wiki is ancient!)

Akismet is amazing and free, it should be enabled immediately!

I looked into data structures a while back and there were some interesting IP address compression structs, but that's all I can remember. At this point I think "optimizing" the format is premature optimization, JSON is convenient and text is cheap!

(1) "in theory" namecoind-based systems should be faster because the data is already locally stored, and (2) "in practice" it may be slower due to implementation issues, he basically said that if .bit could make DNS run fast with less infrastructure investment, that would be a major selling point t...

Well put Jeremy, the Bitcoin foundation happens to live in my backyard, I'll see if I can't reach out to them.

I'm all for the network dynamically charging more for potentially popular domains, I'd much rather have that than feed slime-ball domain-squatters. However, not charging an annual fee for domains is insane, cyber-squatters already use a 3-day loophole in the ICANN domain registration system to "tast...

We could go with the Wikileaks model, designating an existing non-profit to handle the financials and reimbursing whomever is working on the project for the costs incurred. That would lead to difficulties with cost controls, etc, but it's an option. Iceland was supposed to be setting up a virtual ll...

Some dodgy data can be stored like it was in bitcoin? (can't remember the story) This is definitely one of the positives we have going for us: the IP address and account information for any Namecoin transaction is publicly available. It's there for anyone to investigate. I think we are limited in w...

For shits and giggles, I downloaded the top 1 million domains and some IP blacklists, resulting in a 4MB CSV file containing 142,202 IP <-> domain pairs. Simple Zip compression yielded 2:1 - 3:1 compression rates while PAQ8 delivered >4:1 rate. A custom data-structure would likely yield even higher ...

As a side note -- you can't do standard CA verification on a .bit alias, since a CA won't issue a cert for a non-ICANN domain such as .bit. No, I meant TLS for whatever domain it is pointing to, such that using a CA certified https://www.indolering.com would not bring up a warning if the TLS for ht...