An alternate, Decentralised, Blockchain Based Domains for Censorship Resistant Websites

in Project HOPE4 years ago

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A Decentralised Blockchain powered Domain makes a website truly censorship resistant

You may have built a Dapp on a blockchain and feel cool about it, however your setup is still not censorship resistant, until your website is registered in an decentralised blockchain domain registry like ‘Unstoppable Domain’.

Most website domains can be easily taken away as it’s not owned by the customer

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Yup, generally most companies including blockchain companies have their website domains registered using centralised domain registry services like ‘Go Daddy’, while their content is stored
on centralised servers with web hosting services provided by centralised companies like Google or Amazon Web Services.

Obviously, these website domains can be taken away and the websites can be taken down anytime, as it is not censorship resistant.

Unstoppable Domain gives you ownership of the website as it’s in Blockchain

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However, if you avail a blockchain based decentralised domain address from Unstoppable Domains, your website with a “.crypto” extension is truly censorship resistant because these domains are inside Ethereum Blockchain.

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The website domain will be owned by you and can only be controlled by you. The content of your website will be stored in a decentralised storage network, so only you can take down your website and control it. This will actually make you feel like you own your website along with it's domain name.

Unstoppable Domain can function as your address to receive crypto payments as well!!

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Furthermore, your Unstoppable domain, that one with the “.crypto” extension can become your crypto address for receiving crypto payments.

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All you need to do is attach your various crypto addresses to your unstoppable domain name, so that payment can be made to this domain name instead of the sender needing to send it to your crypto wallet address that is long,complicated with 40 characters and cannot be remembered by people.

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Now all the sender needs to do to send you payments is type out your domain name in the send field.

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It is very simple with less chances of error possible by typing out the wrong crypto address in the send field.

A Chainlink node Operator shifts to Unstoppable Domain

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Recently, Vulcan Link a node that inputs price data into Chainlink for Chainlink’s crypto price feeds shifted to a Unstoppable domain.

Reference - https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-price-oracles-are-about-to-become-unstoppable

So Vulcan Link would enjoy censorship resistance as no entity can take Vulcan Link’s domain name nor it’s website and content. Now that’s truly decentralised embracing the spirit of blockchain, don’t you think?.

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