On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 01:28:40PM -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 228 lines which said: > OK, so those proposals are obvious nonsense but the notion of using a > Certificate Transparency type log to issue names for life on a first come > first served basis is not. Hence my callsign proposal: To be sure I understand: it looks a lot like Namecoin (which is more than ten years old) except that it uses an append-only log and not a blockchain? Am I correct? > The objective here is to give Internet users a name they can use for > life. What if they lose the private key? And similar questions, as seen in the years of experience with Namecoin.