Re: GNUnet Name System Questions

[Schanzenbach, Martin]

There is a first-come-first-served registrar for .pin subdomain which is 
a history service by the gnunet project.

Any zone owner can potentially act as a zone registrar and sell (or give 
away) subdomains.

We are currently working on a new registrar service that will also be 
integrated with GNU Taler to allow for payments.

Owning a GNUnet zone is free (since a zone is created by creating a 
public/private key pair).

The question is, if users can reach your zone.
To understand this problem space a bit better, I urge you to read:

Section 7.1. Start Zones: https://lsd.gnunet.org/lsd0001/#name-start-zones

and

Section 9.5 Zone Management: 
https://lsd.gnunet.org/lsd0001/#name-zone-management

from the spec.

I do not know what you mean by "omit IP addresses". A registrar would 
likely just delegate to your zone (public key). Nothing to do with A or 
AAAA records, or IP addresses. (Think NS records in DNS)

Best
Martin



On 03.12.23 09:49, retrovirus-007@juno.com wrote:
> Hello GNUnet Developers,
>
> I was wondering since the last build, if the GNUnet Name System has a domain 
> name registrar service (would owning a GNUnet domain name be free [probably 
> not, but thought it wouldn't hurt to ask])? And if that service can omit 
> certain information such as IPv4 and IPv6 IP addresses?
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> John Doe
> retrovirus-007@juno.com