On: Building a decentralized name system on top of IRC

[baobun]

OK, so, one thing isn't clear to me:

    1. Alice registers example.tld
    2. Bob registers example.tld
    3. Bob reveals example.tld
    4. Alice reveals example.tld

It seems there is now two rooms corresponding to the same name. Who controls example.tld? I'm missing uniqueness and it still seems vaguely racey.

[Uptrenda → baobun]

Both Alice and Bob check if a name is already registered beforehand. Lets say that both of them see that a name is available and go to register it at the same time. Either both will fail (due to taking X names each) or one will succeed (per the consensus requirements.) The software will indicate the results by checking the channel owner after registration for each server. So you know whether to try register a different name or not. So conflicts can still happen here but they're reduced by having unique TLDs + names, requiring small computations, and checking availability beforehand.