Web3 Naming Bids for the DNS Root, and ICANN Names Its Price

The organization that governs the internet’s address book spent the summer on a question it had put off for years. Can a blockchain naming system share a name with the real Domain Name System, and should ICANN let it happen? A first answer arrived on August 10 as a draft technical report, opened for public comment a day later. The application window then closed at 23:59 UTC on August 12, on ICANN’…

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