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Why Any Competing Whois Registry Model Is Doomed

Posted by Soulskill on from the who-isn't dept.

CowboyRobot writes "In Paul Vixie's latest essay, he argues that the alternative to the Whois registry model is flawed and that we should be learning from the mistakes of the history of proposed alternatives to the DNS. 'Any proposal for a competing Whois registry model is as doomed by design and destiny as every alternative DNS system. Even if it succeeds at first, it would fail after copycatting occurred.'"

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  1. Namecoin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    A distributed domain name system exists. Right now. Today.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin

  2. Re:Vixie Cron by eln · · Score: 4, Informative

    He also wrote BIND, which had one of the most breathtakingly awful security records of any single piece of software for many years (the years during which he was the primary author, oddly enough). For a while there, it seemed CERT was issuing advisories for some new vulnerability in BIND that would grant root access to your entire network on a daily basis.