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[Travis McCrea <me AT travismccrea.com>]

You could do it, you just need to have a central server which parses all the 
current .bit domains available and their routing info (which is currently 
being done anyway, even if not on a central computer). So there would be no 
reason, that I can see, that it wouldn't work.

On 2012-03-13, at 3:31 PM, Khalahan wrote:

> Hi !
> 
> We've been working last year on the Namecoin / Dot-BIT project ( 
> http://dot-bit.org/ ) to build a decentralized and P2P DNS registration 
> system. This project is based on the namecoin software which is a fork of 
> bitcoin.
> 
> We've done a lot of work during one year and have several DNS servers (most 
> of which are resolving OpenNIC TLDs), several web proxies (idem), softwares 
> and script to convert data from the namecoin p2p database to a bind server 
> for example.
> See : http://dot-bit.org/How_To_Browse_Bit_Domains and 
> http://dot-bit.org/DNS_and_Proxy_softwares
> 
> Here is a short explanation of how it works :
> * registration of domains is done with the p2p namecoin software.
> * due to the p2p nature of the software, there is no restriction on 
> registration except the cost of a domain ( 
> http://dot-bit.org/tools/domainCost.php ), 0.01NMC (NMC = the namecoin 
> unit).
> * a script fetch data from namecoin and convert it to bind zones
> * a bind server using this script is "authoritative" for the .BIT zone
> 
> BarkerJr has added .bit to his server (with the NamecoinToBind script : 
> https://github.com/khalahan/NamecoinToBind ). So, you could get a feedback 
> from him if needed :p
> 
> 
> Now, the questions :
> 
> * Would it be possible to create a Tier1 server for the .bit zone like that 
> ? (i know this needs a votation, a chart, 2 servers, etc)
> 
> * Would it be possible to be peered with opennic with or without being a 
> Tier1 server, and how it works without ?
> 
> * Did the fact that any server can be authoritative if they want will a 
> problem ?
> 
> * Can only 1 authoritative server exist for the opennic project ?
> 
> * Some questions ?
> 
> -- 
> Best Regards,
> Khalahan
> http://dot-bit.org/
>

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