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DHT based naming systems (GNS, IPNS, Tor Onion names), Blockchain based naming systems, Web-of-Trust style naming, there's lots out there.



Relevent concept: Zooko's Triangle [1]: it's hard to have a naming system which is decentralised and secure against spoofing without giving you long and random (or hashed) names, like with .onion services

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle




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