Don't reserve Alexa Top100 names, only reserve ICANN TLDs and "custom" list

[aoxborrow]

An update to existing SOFT FORK #819.

By looking at the full Alexa list of 100K names, it becomes clear there are many names which are just as popular or arguably more deserving than our outdated list of top 100. Because our list of top 100 is neither comprehensive nor maintained, it seems arbitrary to reserve them and not others. Why should pinterest be reserved but not craigslist? Additionally, two very generic terms mail and ok would potentially be reserved forever, requiring a hard fork to be released. Rather than trying to pick and choose which names should make the cut and relying on additional forks to re-enable claims, I think it's better to just let the claim period end as originally intended. We made a good faith effort to allow claims for 4 years, now time to move on.

This PR removes ALL Alexa names from the reserved list, which means they will ALL become available to OPEN around Jan 1st, 2024. Only ICANN TLDs and the short list of 27 "custom" names chosen by Handshake founders will be permanently reserved.

Any discussion or feedback on this change should be resolved before July 1st in order to wrap up the HSD release and begin distribution and signaling.

Custom list of 27 names to be reserved (chosen by Handshake founders):
https://gist.github.com/nodech/da108d035cb3c694144cc564b07659e4

Alexa Top 100 names (to be released) here:
https://gist.github.com/nodech/a5a308e2b01456d1ea0e34f4be4bd609#file-top100-json

Alexa Top 100k names (to be released) here:
https://gist.github.com/paste/4228c764c139a447de30de62afb9a393

[coveralls]

coverage: 68.545% (-0.003%) from 68.548% when pulling 883ca5d on paste:dont-reserve-alexa-top100 into 90cdf84 on handshake-org:master.

[Falci]

Why don't we use another bit, keep both flags and let the miners decide?

[pinheadmz]

Why don't we use another bit, keep both flags and let the miners decide?

I don't think we have the free time for this added complexity and I don't think the miners are well-informed or community-active enough to make and impose this decision on consensus rules. BIP9 is not a voting system - it is a readiness-signalling system. We* decide the rules and the miners tell us on chain that they are running the new software.

[nickorlabs]

TL;DR - While I have mixed feelings on this, I could easily get behind only including ICANN and Custom protection in the soft fork!

While I have mixed feeling on releasing all of these names, I completely agree with the statement "it becomes clear there are many names which are just as popular or arguably more deserving than our outdated" and think it really is valid for the entire Alexa Top 100,000. With this we will continue to be backwards compatible with ICANN. Additionally, the poll I published it seems to me the community's second choice would be to allow expected results for the Alexa Top 100,000, which I think could easily include the Top 100.

I am sure it would only take a few people voting there for expected results also to be the overall winner for the choices.
I would easily get behind this if this is the path we go.
I also have a tweet asking for the community to help reach out to the companies and communities that have not claimed their names to make a last ditch effort for them to claim before block 210240. @rithvikvibhu's idea! Regardless which way we go, some if not all names will be released so we should do anything and everything to prepare people!

[aoxborrow]

@nickorlabs can you please run another poll specifically for just this change -- to release the Alexa Top100 names along with the rest on Jan 1st, or reserve them until a hard fork can make them claimable?

[nickorlabs]

@nickorlabs can you please run another poll specifically for just this change -- to release the Alexa Top100 names along with the rest on Jan 1st, or reserve them until a hard fork can make them claimable?

Here's the poll I put up for us, if any of this is unclear let me know and I can adjust or at least make sure to communicate the intent etc.

https://star.vote/git823hnd/

[nickorlabs]

Had a Twitter Space and discuss this and the poll, we currently have 10 votes and it seems the feeling is the names in the current top 100 are outdated and do not represent the current top 100 sites.

I have posted the link to the poll again today on Twitter; maybe we will get some additional votes before the end of the day.