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The purpose of DNS is to spread scams

2026-09-09 20:12:49.538604+02 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

I've said for years that we need to get away from DNS as Terence Eden's Blog: The purpose of DNS is to spread scams

And, holy crap, yes, we need to be working towards something where we are able to pass around cryptographic identifier tokens, name them what we want to, and not depend on some big centralized system to hand out identity that's being used largely to fool us.

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#Comment Re: made: 2026-09-10 00:05:09.005359+02 by: spc476 [edit history]

In my mind, working code trumps theory and bitching. Now, with that said …

How do you square this with your previous post where you said:

… “oh right, person X in this context is Y in that one” mappings I now have to keep straight …

If DNS were truly decentralized, wouldn't this be a real problem?

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