Investigation of the Internet Naming System Evolution

Our Goals

This is a project website highlighting our efforts for a comparative study of DNS and blockchain-based Internet naming systems, using Ethereum Name System (ENS) as a representative of the latter. The study focuses on three aspects: namespace assignment control, name authentication support, and name resolution process and associated cost.

Related Sources

In this section, you can find related papers, websites, blogs etc.

Academic Papers

• Agostinho, B. M., Pasini, F. B., Gomes, F. O., Pinto, A. S. R., & Dantas, M. A. R. (2020, December). An Approach Adopting Ethereum as a Wallet Domain Name System within the Economy of Things Context. In 2020 IEEE/ACM 13th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC) (pp. 176-185). IEEE.
• Béres, F., Seres, I. A., Benczúr, A. A., & Quintyne-Collins, M. (2021, August). Blockchain is watching you: Profiling and deanonymizing ethereum users. In 2021 IEEE international conference on decentralized applications and infrastructures (DAPPS) (pp. 69-78). IEEE.
• Franceschet, M. (2023). Decentraland: The Alleged Decentralization of Blockchain Applications. Communications of the ACM, 66(6), 45-47.
• Heimbach, L., Kiffer, L., Ferreira Torres, C., & Wattenhofer, R. (2023, October). Ethereum’s Proposer-Builder Separation: Promises and Realities. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference (pp. 406-420).
• Kim, S. K., Ma, Z., Murali, S., Mason, J., Miller, A., & Bailey, M. (2018, October). Measuring ethereum network peers. In Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference 2018 (pp. 91-104).
• Rajendran, B., Palaniappan, G., Dijesh, R., & Sudarsan, S. D. (2022, July). A Universal Domain Name Resolution Service–Need and Challenges-Study on Blockchain Based Naming Services. In 2022 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
• Randall, A., Hardaker, W., Voelker, G. M., Savage, S., & Schulman, A. (2022, November). The Challenges of Blockchain-Based Naming Systems for Malware Defenders. In 2022 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime) (pp. 1-14). IEEE.
• Robinson, P. (2018). Using ethereum registration authorities to establish trust for ethereum private sidechains. The Journal of the British Blockchain Association, 1(2).
• Schneider, N. (2023). Web3 Is the Opportunity We Have Had All Along.
• Tikhomirov, S. (2018). Ethereum: state of knowledge and research perspectives. In Foundations and Practice of Security: 10th International Symposium, FPS 2017, Nancy, France, October 23-25, 2017, Revised Selected Papers 10 (pp. 206-221). Springer International Publishing.
• Xie, R., Wang, Y., Tan, M., Zhu, W., Yang, Z., Wu, J., & Jeon, G. (2020). Ethereum-blockchain-based technology of decentralized smart contract certificate system. IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, 3(2), 44-50.
• Xia, P., Wang, H., Yu, Z., Liu, X., Luo, X., & Xu, G. (2021). Ethereum name service: the good, the bad, and the ugly. arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.05185.
• Xia, P., Wang, H., Yu, Z., Liu, X., Luo, X., Xu, G., & Tyson, G. (2022, October). Challenges in decentralized name management: The case of ens. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference (pp. 65-82).

Newspaper/Blog Articles

• DESPRES, S. (2020, June 29). DNS on Blockchain: The next evolution of domain names?. Cybersecurity, intellectual property and domain names news. https://blog.nameshield.com/blog/2020/04/08/dns-on-blockchain-the-next-evolution-of-domain-names/
• Toppa, S. (2023, October 9). JPMorgan raises alarm over liquidity trend for $200 billion crypto network. The Street. https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/markets/jpmorgan-raises-alarm-over-liquidity-trend-for-200-billion-crypto-network
• Unstoppable Domains. (2023, November 15). Your one-stop-shop for .com and WEB3 domains. https://unstoppabledomains.com/blog/categories/announcements/article/unstoppable-offers-com

ICANN Workshop Slides

• Osterweil, R. (2023). INSO ENS [Slides]. Retrieved from https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/icann78/37/2.6%20Osterweil%20-%20INSO%20ENS.pdf
• Zhang, A., & Osterweil, R. (2023). 3.5 Zhang and Osterweil ICANN-naming [Slides]. Retrieved from https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/icann78/96/3.5%20Zhang%20and%20Osterweil%202310ICANN-naming%5B1%5D.pdf
• Rand, J. (2017). Namecoin-ICANN58-EIT-Final [Slides]. Retrieved from https://www.namecoin.org/files/videos/icann-58/Namecoin-ICANN58-EIT-Final.pdf

Reports

• Weaver, N. (Year). Ethereum Name Service (ENS) Reports. Retrieved from https://www.blockchain-names.com/ens
• Weaver, N. (Year). Unstoppable Domains Reports. Retrieved from https://www.blockchain-names.com/unstoppable
• Weaver, N. (Year). GNS Reports. Retrieved from https://www.blockchain-names.com/gns
• Weaver, N. (Year). Handshake Reports. Retrieved from https://www.blockchain-names.com/handshake
• Weaver, N. (Year). Namecoin Reports. Retrieved from https://www.blockchain-names.com/namecoin