Matthew Zipkin

Added one more commit https://github.com/handshake-org/hsd/pull/534/commits/e80b835b3a05308a71fac7b5a8647573280ad085 which fixes _another_ SYNTH4/SYNTH6 decoding issue that should have been caught in https://github.com/handshake-org/hsd/pull/444 Example output of my own mainnet name `omnitude` with SYNTH records: ```...

new TODO: some names have unknown resource versions, bypass them, otherwise the process will throw and abort. ```diff diff --git a/lib/node/rpc.js b/lib/node/rpc.js index 1973aa98e..96f276574 100644 --- a/lib/node/rpc.js +++ b/lib/node/rpc.js @@...

Using a hard fork to reallocate assets will necessarily be controversial, meaning any such attempt to do so will result in a second blockchain. We've seen this exact story play...

@NetOperatorWibby > Johnny Wu of Namebase has a burner wallet that people have sent names to. This doesn't make sense. The names will just expire and back to auction. If...

@befranz > ICANN TLDs which were not reserved by mistake in the beginning should become reserved via hard fork (of course just if community voted for). The current owner (who...

> the founders' understanding of ICANN ...is what led to the invention of Handshake.

> they did not end up prevailing as the party who ultimately secured the TLD through the ICANN application process. Apologies. 🙏

Example: ### HNS answers for `com` but not `amazon` ``` --> dig com ns +short i.gtld-servers.net. c.gtld-servers.net. e.gtld-servers.net. d.gtld-servers.net. h.gtld-servers.net. b.gtld-servers.net. k.gtld-servers.net. j.gtld-servers.net. f.gtld-servers.net. a.gtld-servers.net. m.gtld-servers.net. g.gtld-servers.net. l.gtld-servers.net. --> dig...

From the whitepaper: > > #### Root Zone Fallback > > Due to the fact that not all reserved root names will be claimed by nameholders > immediately, we propose...

Another perspective on this, after discussing with @buffrr is that the design might have intended to ignore all new ICANN domains after mainnet launched - simply because those strings would...