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Aral Balkan Aug 5, 2017

OpenNIC: the unsung hero of the future?

So I’m ashamed to say that I’ve basically been ignorant of the fact that there’s been an alternate democratic/open/post-Capitalist domain name system operating since 2000. It’s called OpenNIC (https://www.opennic.org/) and – with a bit of design love and creative marketing – I don’t see why we couldn't get widespread support for it. It would be a huge step forward for decentralisation/individual sovereignty. https://mastodon.ar.al/media/upXlzzLil5JHFbxONJQ

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Hattie T. Cat Aug 5, 2017

@aral Been using OpenNic for around 5 years now combined with DNScrypt. Main problem is that resolvers come and go so now and then DNS will break and you'll have to change the resolver (manually).

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Hattie T. Cat

@aral Another issue is that you basically have to trust that e.g. if they say they don't keep logs that they really don't. But of course that's an issue with any DNS provider.