Noting the focus of the ISoc community in preventing Internet fragmentation generally, the potential risk of fragmentation of the Internet’s name space, the Domain Name System (DNS), will be of interest.

I was joined on Monday by Georgia Osborn and Nathan Alan of the DNS Research Federation.  They gave a presentation on blockchain-based name services and whether they posed a threat to the DNS, after which we had a very useful Q&A session.  You can catch a recording of the discussion plus associated information links at https://419.consulting/encrypted-dns/f/with-blockchain-based-name-services-is-the-dns-obsolete. 

Andrew