Yes, you're certainly allowed to hope, and I'm happy you do, because I am a cipherpunk at heart.
> .ovh requires paying $3.49 every year to renew it
And .brave domains are "buy once keep forever"?
What's the track record for that business model?
Is that how Unstoppable Domains does all their TLDs?
> ICANN can take away your domain
I see the point of having multiple resolution strategies, one of which is ICANN. But if a .brave domain is removed as part of an ICANN-induced process, and it's still available via blockchain-based resolvers, it's still practically censored worldwide. If I want to go to The Pirate Bay in a country that DNS-blacklisted them, I need a search engine to find one of the many proxy domains. It'd be equally inconvenient for most people to access a .brave domain that got conventionally DNS-blacklisted, blockchain or not.
> having actual ownership over the domain you purchased
Owning as in not paying a recurring fee? Okay.
Owning as in being invulnerable to censorship? In some sci-fi dream scenario, yes.
Owning as in having complete control of your "asset" in a vast service network? Not close.
I'd like to believe more in blockchain-based DNS, but it seems to be for technologists only.
> .ovh requires paying $3.49 every year to renew it
And .brave domains are "buy once keep forever"?
What's the track record for that business model?
Is that how Unstoppable Domains does all their TLDs?
> ICANN can take away your domain
I see the point of having multiple resolution strategies, one of which is ICANN. But if a .brave domain is removed as part of an ICANN-induced process, and it's still available via blockchain-based resolvers, it's still practically censored worldwide. If I want to go to The Pirate Bay in a country that DNS-blacklisted them, I need a search engine to find one of the many proxy domains. It'd be equally inconvenient for most people to access a .brave domain that got conventionally DNS-blacklisted, blockchain or not.
> having actual ownership over the domain you purchased
Owning as in not paying a recurring fee? Okay.
Owning as in being invulnerable to censorship? In some sci-fi dream scenario, yes.
Owning as in having complete control of your "asset" in a vast service network? Not close.
I'd like to believe more in blockchain-based DNS, but it seems to be for technologists only.