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 There is no need for globally unique names, IMO. We have them just because of the market economics when bootstrapping the Web. 
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 I would like to believe that, but there are some usecases where they are useful. An example would be advertisement over audio. I can't plug a product identified by 52 characters. And these situations will happen all the time, there won't always be a way to share a url or qr.

Another reason to use ICANN is for organisations. You can't sell your company's public key, but the domain is an automatic property of the new owner. I think even if we only use keys, we will reinvent registrars for these use cases. 
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 You can do vanity npubs for corps in a FROST design where they can swap keys as needed without changing the npub. Key discovery/completion goes through the user's WOT graph.  
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 In my understanding, FROST can't help you here, because the new owner has no way to confirm the previous owner deleted their key shares. I could be wrong, would love to be surprised. Ed25519 too can do FROST so that will be good news. 
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 They don't need to delete. You just rotate the polynomial to a position the leaked key is not part of the polynomial anymore. 
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 based 
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 OK but can't the old shares still sign things for the same public key?

Maybe I am missing something. 
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 Signers have to agree on a polynomial to sign. My understanding is that once the leaked key signs with the wrong polynomial, the other signers can just reject that share.  
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 I need to read more. But my intuition says, the old owner already had all shares necessary to generate a full valid signature, so that is impossible to verifiable lose.

The only scenario that makes sense to me, is if the company from the start setup the key shares with a trusted 3rd party that assures the new owner that the previous owner doesn't have enough shares to sign on their own. maybe that is what you meant all along. 
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 Yeah, but even more fundamentally you also dont know if the private key that is at the basis of the multisig exists somewhere. Transfer of ownership requires a record one way or another, and so we are back to all the ledger shannigans we are all too familiar with. I agree ICANN can't be beaten when it comes to this stuff; this means the problem has no 'solution', mere mitigation with trade-offs one way or another.

Hence i am so bored and tired of thinking about this, and just grugbrain myself behind Nostr; because ultimately what we need is 'sort of good enough'+momentum=succes. I believe Nostr is sort of good enough and has momentum.

Congratulations on building the Nostr's Ethereum

 
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 namespaced directories can be server via other more trusted entities, but there is no need for a monopoly on it (WoT) 
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 no need for global namespaces where we're going 😅  
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 IPv2 upgrade incoming...
nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqz4rnedwlxdqqznmmv95ny2cey4uf23qldjexxjj6p2mt6mdlaecqy28wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytncxpnzummjvuhszythwden5te0dehhxarj9emkjmn99uqzq2v0h3yl06eay73q0nk0tnrxkf5qlvjcvn5t2tfcav6pd0kvgw0c3wcfyw 
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 Could you elaborate? 
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 it was just an off the cuff remark really, don't read too much into it—but

if the internet falls apart / balkanizes there wouldn't be such coordination, and not really a need to be able to address everything because you can't reach everything

same with space travel and light-speed delays and relativistic communication 
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 Ok 😂 
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 store and forward networks are the longterm future. http://www.nncpgo.org/ 
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 👀  
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 people practically don't use domain names anymore. it's time to let that legacy go
nostr:nevent1qqsym7d0cjad8ywj834xna7gwfnppwhleykad5gnugu2a3p6nd5743spzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtczyprqcf0xst760qet2tglytfay2e3wmvh9asdehpjztkceyh0s5r9cqcyqqqqqqghjeh8f 
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 That one dude sitting on https://huaktuah.com 😂