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Wouldn't it be useful to have a censorship-resistant layer for normie DNS? Controlled from Nostr.

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Without going too much into design details, npubs that used to have their valid NIP-05 `_@domain` could keep controlling their domain records after their domain takedown. Records are resolvable through ordinary nameservers that could be used as an alternative to Quad9/CF/etc., could be run by whoever wants, and could be advertised with DHCP in Nostr-VPN/Obscura/etc. by default.

TLS will possibly keep working normally after a domain takedown until the cert expires. Useful for site redirection when it's accessed from an ordinary browser.

HTTPS could be allowed with self-signed certs (at least for the taken-down domains) in the native Nostr clients. Relays would just keep working.

All this would to some degree backfire on domain registrars (or whoever is involved) every time they conform to a domain ban requirement: with some limitations, the original authentic domain owners will be awarded a forever free domain when it's banned. Except these lucky banned domain owners will be actual owners, independent from ICANN.