.eth blockchain domain support

[kallisti5]

Now that Agregore supports IPFS...

.eth blockchain domains can link to IPFS content.
terarocket.eth for example links to an IPFS dns-link domain.

You manage .eth domains at ens.domains via Web3
https://app.ens.domains

[kallisti5]

Oh.. and here are how dnslink domains work:

[kallisti5@eris Downloads]$ dig _dnslink.terarocket.io TXT
_dnslink.terarocket.io. 300 IN TXT "dnslink=/ipfs/QmbYQTWh8FYnRBhjEzso56Q9jaJQfFNpQkkkLKhEyKd9yq"

• terarocket.io is an A record to cloudflare-ipfs.com
• cloudflare-ipfs.com 's IPFS gateway renders /ipns/terarocket.io from the IPFS gateway
• The IPFS gateway gets /ipns/terarocket.io looks up _dnslink.terarocket.io and renders ipfs/QmbYQTWh8FYnRBhjEzso56Q9jaJQfFNpQkkkLKhEyKd9yq

[RangerMauve]

I think the dns-link stuff should work already with the IPNS PUBLISH method.

I'm down for a PR for .eth domains.

Etherium integration at a protocol handler level would also be cool. 😁

[RangerMauve]

Would also be down to get ens support into hyper:// URLs.

[KyGost]

I think ENS would be really cool.

Any other distributed DNS options?

Not the biggest fan of Ethereum but I guess it's better than Bitcoin at least :-p

[KyGost]

I had a play with getting ENS working but couldn't get it working, likely doing something silly.

const Web3 = require('web3')
const ENS = require('ethereum-ens')
const provider = new Web3.providers.HttpProvider()
const ens = new ENS(provider)
ens.resolver('resolver.eth').addr()
  .then(console.log)
  .catch(console.error)

[RangerMauve]

Had a call with Brently from ENS, seems like this could be useful. For hyper:// support we'd likely need to submit a PR to the content-hash repo in order to support it. Though maybe we could store it as a regular multicodec value.

I was thinking of talking to the Etherium Foundation folks to see if we could get a small grant to get it integrated as well as add docs for how to use it.

Could also be part of ens:// support as a protocol. 🤔

[RangerMauve]

Gonna close this for now in favor of #77