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The Dat project, which is somewhat similar to IPFS, and the people behind Beaker have addressed these things. So you can have a site like dat://9900f9aad4d6e79e0beb1c46333852b99829e4dfcdfa9b690eeeab3c367c1b9a/ or you can access the same thing as dat://fritter.hashbase.io using DNS-over-HTTPS for Dat (which is a mouthful, so I've been calling it DSN [Dat Short Names] instead). TTL is controlled by the publisher, just like with DNS. The main downside with the current incarnation is that while the content network itself is decentralized, short name resolution is not, since it's bootstrapped from the traditional DNS/HTTPS infrastructure for now. Which means the short name works only so long as the publisher continues responding.

Beaker is a web browser for Dat sites. The 0.8 release is supposed to happen sometime in the next month, I think. The same team set up hashbase.io to make it trivial to create a short name for a Dat site, and so that you can have Hashbase act as a fallback superpeer/permaseed for your content.




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