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[Rouben <rouben AT rouben.net>]

Hi,

Thank you, Astanze for writing the plugin and using OpenNIC, and thank you, Dmitry for reaching out to Astanze.

I’m using the plugin on Chrome. I like it, especially the fact that you open sourced it. It works fine for the most part. There is one caveat, where it fails to resolve multi-level domain names, but I don’t think that’s an issue, really, for day-to-day browsing.

For example:

foo.tld works

www.foo.tld works as well

foo.bar.baz.foobar.tld tends not to work

I suspect perhaps there’s a parsing issue, or maybe an issue on my end... pure speculation, I admit. I was going to investigate further and submit a proper bug report on github, but alas, time is not something I have a lot of these days...

Bottom line: keep up the good work, and if you are interested in putting forward a proposal for some sort of “official” OpenNIC endorsement/partnership, I would support it in principle.

Cheers!

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 08:08 Jonah Aragon <jonah AT triplebit.net> wrote:

Hello!

First off, thanks a lot for adding support for our DNS system, your plugin looks like a great simple solution to access sites like these and I’m happy about the work you do. 

I’ll have to test your plugin a bit more myself, and I was hoping to hear from some other community members who had used it. Didn’t see much in the last email thread about this. 

I had briefly tested the plugin on a corporate machine of mine without success. It could just be that whatever methods you’re using were blocked on that computer or it couldn’t access your servers, but I was somewhat disappointed because that was the first clear use-case I thought of. The plugin makes the most sense if you otherwise aren’t able to change your DNS records, so I’d like to discover more limitations like that before suggesting it as a clear suggestion or alternative. 

I’ll be sure to give it a try on some other systems without restrictions like that to test it out. And I hope other members here will give it a try and report back. 

Do you operate every server personally?

Thanks for your work on this,

Jonah

On Oct 19, 2017, at 12:33 PM, "astanze AT blockchain-dns.info" <astanze AT blockchain-dns.info> wrote:

Hi all.

 

I couldn't find a more suitable address to contact so I'm sorry if this message is off topic for this mailing list. Please re-direct me if that's the case.

 

I'd like to get feedback on the following idea.

 

I am the author of a relatively new addon for Firefox and Chrome that allows browsing OpenNIC TLDs (such as .bbs), as well as Emercoin and Namecoin TLDs after a 1-click installation. More info about the project's goal can be found on its homepage.

 

The addon was released in September and already got around 1k users. There was an article on Medium.

 

The idea/question is: can it be made an "official recommendation" as an alternative to OpenNIC's own DNS for custom TLDs? What are the requirements for that?

 

Obviously, it's not perfectly decentralized, although the infrastructure is pretty robust - 9 separate domains, each with its own dedicated server independent of others. However, as an average user doesn't care about changing DNS settings in his OS this may be better than nothing.

 

The plugin is already open source (see GitHub) and I plan on releasing the sources for bring up a compatible server (that resolves N/E/OpenNIC TLDs) which can run on any VPS with 10GB+ of disk space (5x2 for N/E blockchains).

 

P.S: we also have an initiative of giving out free Emercoin and Namecoin domains to popularize the idea of decentralized DNS so those interested are welcome to get in touch with me.

 

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https://blockchain-dns.info/astanze.asc

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