How about DNS on a blockchain?

meowkit · 2025-09-26T17:58:23 1758909503

Supporting DNS all up should be possible but organizing the other decentralized services (compute, storage) is the hard part

fruitworks · 2025-09-26T19:11:18 1758913878

The name service is easy, namecoin did it more efficiently than ENS a decade ago.

The decentralized services need not be attached to some blockchain due to the resource constraints. But there are examples like Filecoin and such.

simonw · 2025-09-26T20:34:20 1758918860

Aka DNS where if you lose your passphrase (or get phished) you irreversibly lose control of that domain.

deadbabe · 2025-09-27T00:30:43 1758933043

But the tradeoff is that it’s free right?

charcircuit · 2025-09-26T19:24:40 1758914680

They already work in Brave too or for other browsers if you install a webextention.

HumanOstrich · 2025-09-26T20:28:10 1758918490

That sounds like an unnecessarily overcomplicated nightmare.