discuss What Technology Will Replace Domain Names ?

[jaleel khader]

Hello Guys

What Technology Will Replace Domain Names ?
I Googled This Question But I Can't See Any Potential Technology Will Replace It In Near Future Maybe We Can Say That's Impossible Before 20-30 Years From Now .

Hope To hear Your Thoughts


My Regards

 

[OnlineDomainShop]

Blockchain domains. Distributed web. Still need names but with a distributed system nobody has control, so for instance Google won't be able to tell us which sites are popular, GoDaddy won't be able to block domain names even with a court order.

By coincidence I've been checking out some of this stuff this evening. The potential is simply mind blowing. I've just bought a domain name with no renewal fees, ever, and nobody can relinquish it or take it away from me unless I decide they can have it.

This gonna works only if google facebook and 100 top tech giants shifts from .com to blockchain addresses and believe me 0.001% chances of this ...

 

[JimmySun]

It’s easy be replaced by a random hash of blockchain and transform them to any forms they want, letters, pic, pixels, emoji, etc. whatever those are you just put it to your wallet in the form of what that chain making it up to and what they need is just a brand name.

 

[JimmySun]

Did anything replace street addresses? Or company names? Or personal names?

Street # can not be created by individuals or companies that’s different than the domain names now particularly for web3.0 for blockchain.

 

[pb]

Traditional calls converted to mobile which have converted to WhatsApp etc which are converting to Zoom etc.....

I'm not that much of a techy but phone numbers will be become obsolete..........

Yeah but it's pretty much for the same reason for which domain names were put on top of IP numbers.
It's easier to say "call us at @somecompany" than "call us at 5983438732".

 

[Mike Goodman]

TBH I can't see anything replacing domain names as we know them for a very long time to come. Blockchain is excellent in concept. It has numerous advantages. But the economics of complete change from .com to .crypto don't stack up yet by any measure. It may be they never will. I can easily envisage the two systems running side by side in harmony for decades to come.

It is going to take many years, perhaps a whole generation, to be sufficiently widespread for general use. Even then, it will still be based upon a naming system and nobody has come up with any real logic yet for that not being a domain name system.

What is likely to change via blockchain is that we will realise how versatile domain names are in that they can be used for much more than they are being now. That is what, over time, may possibly provide the real emphasis for blockchain replacing DNS as we know it today. So even for the millions who retain today's domain names, and there remain excellent reasons for doing so for many, in the future they may be running on blockchain without the holders even realising it.

 

[Kingslayer]

Why do you think the domain name space will become redundant with billions of people using it?

There is too much money and technology already invested in it, to warrant replacing it.

Telephone numbers are 140-years old, and still in use.

Yeah but telephone numbers don't cost thousands or even millions of dollars to get one, they are free but just for arguments sake, the way we even make calls is changing (Skype, Whats app etc), billions were also using cassette tapes when CD's took over!

There's one consistent thing that as always happened throughout Earth’s history and that is the old always makes way for the young (circle of life). In tech this accelerates even quicker (old making way for the new), you buy a new phone or TV and its only top of the range for a few months before the next model comes out.

Domains have had what 30 years? That is hell of a long time for anything electronic related, to put it into context how long they've been around, people was still getting Speak and Spells as Christmas presents when domains names first came onto the scene and playing Pac Man video game on their cartridge based Atari’s, look how things have progressed since then.

I would be very surprised if domain names still had another 30 years in them, as said there's indications things are changing how people connect to the web now with apps and what not, in 20 years how we connect to the web is going to be totally different to now, everything will be contacted to the web, plants/oceans/roads/cars/homes/clothing/dust bins etc, even humans themselves.

 

[TauseefKhan]

Lets assume the threat to be neutral for next ten years.

 

[Lox]

On the blockchain, your key to your domain is yours and written on the chain forever. Transfer to a different wallet as you wish.

You can have a company/org managing DNS settings, nameservers etc, but the actual domain is fully owned by whomever owns the key. If someone buys/takes over them, they disappear, means nothing for the protocol the domain is based on.

How many wallets can I host on one Blockchain Domain Name?
If Wallet A disappear, do I need to detach my BDN first before attaching it to the Wallet B? If yes, who’s the ghostbuster/ supporter to help me?

Regards

 

[Mike Goodman]

@Lox it's all there for you to read on the Unstoppable Domains site. There are warnings about care of your BDN and what to do if it, or your password or a key, is stolen. I don't think there is a limit to how many wallets you can have, but certainly sufficient to cover any needs I could think of. You can store lots of other data in them besides coins.

The whole point of blockchain technology is that it is "distributed" - nobody owns it. A few people hold what are effectively keys to the gate to get into it and you pay them for unlocking that gate for you. That's buying your .crypto domain name.

Once through the gate, at least on the Etherium version, if you are not silly enough to lose your credentials or have them stolen and unless you sell your little bit of it, it is yours forever. The entry gateways have no further influence no matter who buys them out or makes a better, more irresistible, entry offer.

 

[biggie]

Hi

the blockchain is the foundation of the Matrix
where all, in the future will be connected.

it's what you've been asking for anyway, right?

imo...

 

[bmugford]

@LoxThe whole point of blockchain technology is that it is "distributed" - nobody owns it. A few people hold what are effectively keys to the gate to get into it and you pay them for unlocking that gate for you. That's buying your .crypto domain name.

Once through the gate, at least on the Etherium version, if you are not silly enough to lose your credentials or have them stolen and unless you sell your little bit of it, it is yours forever. The entry gateways have no further influence no matter who buys them out or makes a better, more irresistible, entry offer.

If nobody "owns" it why are the gatekeepers holding "premium" terms back and asking premium prices for them?

It seems like a normal new extension to me, the only difference is being on an alternative root that will be crushed when ICANN delegates the real thing on the normal root zone.

This is the same thing, wrapped in a shiny new package. History repeats itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New.net

Brad

 

[biggie]

Hi Brad

thanks for presenting some basic logic

If

why

difference

same thing, wrapped in a shiny new package

one has to ask, the "if's" and the "why's", to know the differences, similarities and outright fallacies.
if not, they may get caught-up.

the premium holdback, is the key, to who controls what is unowned.

imo...

 

[King]

Typing in the host's IP will surely replace domain names.

 

[Mike Goodman]

Hmmm. Seems a bit like saying the central banks will soon blow bitcoin out of the water. They haven't and I don't believe they know how to. That is not to say bitcoin is here for good. But it may be. Nobody knows yet and that is the same with using blockchain technology for other purposes, including names and DNS.

So it is up to every individual to make a choice, or to ignore the phenomenon altogether until there is solid reason to take notice, if that ever comes to pass. For every "new" dotnet in recent years there has been a new and surprising success story. It seems to me surprises have the annoying quality of being unpredictable.

I've chosen to dip a very tentative toe in the water to see what it's all about and not to be left in the wake of the early adopters if it does prove itself in the most judgemental forum of all, time. My crystal ball is no better or worse than yours but the signs to date at least look promising to me.

 

[bmugford]

Hmmm. Seems a bit like saying the central banks will soon blow bitcoin out of the water. They haven't and I don't believe they know how to. That is not to say bitcoin is here for good. But it may be. Nobody knows yet and that is the same with using blockchain technology for other purposes, including names and DNS.

So it is up to every individual to make a choice, or to ignore the phenomenon altogether until there is solid reason to take notice, if that ever comes to pass. For every "new" dotnet in recent years there has been a new and surprising success story. It seems to me surprises have the annoying quality of being unpredictable.

I've chosen to dip a very tentative toe in the water to see what it's all about and not to be left in the wake of the early adopters if it does prove itself in the most judgemental forum of all, time. My crystal ball is no better or worse than yours but the signs to date at least look promising to me.

You can invest in what you want to invest in, but history is a nice counter balance to the hype.

The blockchain part is new. The extensions on alternate DNS is not.

The company behind this is acting no different than any other greedy registry, they are just wrapping it in some marketing message.

Brad

 

[Mike Goodman]

@bmugford Absolutely true, of course. Just like the current situation where the big players toy with the likes of ICANN whilst ignoring the interests of smaller players and clients alike. I wasn't awarding points for fairness or integrity.

When there are no other fields to play on, I can either walk away or play the game on the pitch that's available. That's true of domaining now. This is another field and I'd like to see how it goes, playing on it without risking an awful lot, before passing judgement one way or another.

The one fundamental difference I see is that the board level personnel in these ventures do appear to be genuine enthusiasts and technically savvy people. That is a contrast to the general board members of the bigger players in the wider IT field now, whether that be domains, DNS, hosting, security, IoT or any other branch of it. Some good may come of that. Or the corporates will buy their way in and it will end up same as same as. Who knows?

 

[oldtimer]

Hmmm. Seems a bit like saying the central banks will soon blow bitcoin out of the water. They haven't and I don't believe they know how to.

Those who own the most powerful Quantum Computers will define the future,

Blockchain is like child's play to a Super Intelligent AI.

IMO

 

[Lox]

1999 SETI@home (distributed computing over the Internet for research purposes) Benefits & Rewards. [SETI today]

2009 Bitcoin software / coins (mining over the Internet for "research purposes", signature generation algorithm /dsa) Benefits & Rewards. [The cost of mining is shared by everybody "interested" in bitcoin / coin]. Processing transactions cost you % < here we go.

Regards

 

[Altetra]

As many have mention, it is the platforms like FB which are replacing domain names, that is why most traffic goes to Zuck and he becomes more rich day by day.
Stop using such social media websites and you will see that interest in domains will begin to grow.
Answer to your question of new tech that replaces DN's is: Facebook Technologies.
I have begin to damage reputation of FB by revealing Zuckerberg secrets, and will continue doing this until FB will sink like Titanic.
Between the same thing will happen to Google, Youtube and other monsters i guarantee you.

 

[HotKey]

I can not understand why some people reject the idea that someday a new technology will replace the existing one, while witnessing that happen many times.

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It's called self-preservation.. and being so deeply invested in a particular area that any threat to that would cause catastrophic financial loss. It doesn't have to be that way however, migration to blockchain domains will be slow enough it should allow for current assets to be relieved.

It's very possible for some current systems to work alongside blockchain, eg Handshake is a root replacement but not a DNS replacement. So everyone can still play nice.

Or will end up going back to landline newspapers and shops to be more environmentally conscious. All the tech is not sustainable neither is all the packaging from web domain consumerism. We got lazy, antisocial, impatient, angry, selfish and rapidly losing our humanity and morals, the correct word for 'ethics' IMHO.

Wow. All for that, and agreed.