Hi Chokri,
Thanks for this article. It offers an interesting take on how to improve the existing DNS's technical infrastructure using blockchain. I am not qualified to comment on either the technical or practical suitability of taking this from theory to reality.
However, this use of blockchain was not the source of the threats that started this thread, which inferred not just a new technology but a direct challenge to ICANN's management of a single DNS. The statement
"It is quite possible that Blockchain domains present a threat to the DNS or certainly impacts the DNS."
explicitly proposes that the threatened use of blockchain lies outside ICANN's DNS and may indeed be designed to compete with it. Further fearmongering of risk to ICANN is borne by the offer of hypothetical scenarios such as
"For example, will ICANN be able to delegate new TLDs in the DNS if there are conflicting Blockchain domains?"
Just as it is vital to differentiate the different interests of registrants and Internet end-users (which for reasons unknown has long been a challenge to At-Large) it is also very important to separate the technical from the political. This issue seeks only to exploit blockchain as a buzzword and a tool of political leverage, rather than any offer of an innovative way for ICANN to manage the DNS.
Cheers,
- Evan