Go on about the ICANN IP addresses.
I’d like to hear more about what people are coming up with to get around that.
The big idea I see emerging is npubs being provisioned as computing resources that can accept and send ecash to independently sustain themselves.
Independent of DNS, CAs, and ICANN-assigned IP addresses.
This is the future I saw at nostr:npub1s0veng2gvfwr62acrxhnqexq76sj6ldg3a5t935jy8e6w3shr5vsnwrmq5 #sec05
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ICANN is still a necessary evil, but the idea is to make them as disposable or substitutable as possible. Same with DNS, a necessary evil, but there is a possibility of building an alternative namespace that resolves to npub resources.
This is a long game.
Thank you.
The Fedimint crew has leaned into iroh for to reduce dependency on DNS, which was awesome to see.
Still need IP though for transport though.
I view ICANN/IP like the public roads infrastructure. Works for 99.999% of the time. It’s that 0.001% situation where all hell breaks loose if there is no alternative.
It’s a s###show in Africa
https://domainnamewire.com/2025/07/10/afrinic-under-scrutiny-as-icann-warns-of-compliance-review/