On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 09:43:30 -0500, Jeremy Rand wrote:
One of the criticisms of Namecoin which seems to be raised sometimes is that the current domain namespace spec doesn't have a method for a .bit domain owner to prove that they are in control of a .onion. (This is also an issue for .bit domains that point to .i2p.) I'm interested in improving this situation, and am looking for feedback.
First off, I'm curious what the various use cases are for this. The main use case I'm aware of is if a user is aware of a .onion domain already, and is trying to find a human-memorable way to access it.
I'm not familiar with Namecoin, but I thought I'd just point out that someone will be working on OnioNS, the onion name system, as part of the SoP in Tor. The person who will be working on it just sent an e-mail to this very list yesterday.
You two seem to be after the same "human-readable way to access .onion domain names" target as you yourself described, so there might be room for collaboration.