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 So people would need to know more about resolvers to get to where they want to go?

I would eventually hope for not needing IP addresses at all. I would love to just get stuff and send stuff based on my nostr keypair.  
 I could argue that this is where we are now. People "know" (unconsciously, via their browser and OS settings) certain DNS resolvers that are considered global / canonical. There's nothing stopping someone from choosing some wacky resolver that points domains to wacky IP addresses. 

 Nothing stopping them, that is, except for the lack of user-facing settings and apps with good UX. Imagine you had a web browser that had a little drop-down next to the URL bar that let you choose between "default global DNS" and "my region's DNS" and "my social circle's DNS" and "my secret club's DNS". When you enter a domain you would (maybe) get different results depending on your DNS context... This is maybe a silly contrived example, but it would work today with just an added select box.

You could imagine integrating something like this with Nostr lists or groups or something. It's just a lack of creative experiments preventing this 

 
 This could be a pretty cool thing to do at some point. 
nostr:nevent1qqs2yzejj0lgme7wj2f0enjdyd7hpus5n5964jhmeyxer3827vmzrvqpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wchsygpwl2n3twa5dh2mu6ma4rthqqnx6yt8fwgnhqtc4hd4ctnrmxrnxypsgqqqqqqs55pjaj 
 You ever seen used this?
https://www.dnscrypt.org/ 
 No.  
 I use it from time to time  
 Cool.  
 I like it.