The fusion of DNS and NOSTR points toward the kind of Internet infrastructure we now need — one that combines structure with trust. DNS already gives us a resilient, distributed backbone for naming, discovery, and metadata — it tells us what exists and where it lives. NOSTR adds the missing layer of authenticity and continuity: each event is independently signed yet part of a larger, verifiable whole. Together, they can create a trust-enabled web. DNS can publish verified metadata — like a domain’s NOSTR public key or relay endpoints — while NOSTR provides cryptographically signed attestations tied to those domains. A NOSTR event could prove it originated from example.com without any central authority, while DNS points to the relays carrying its live state. By linking static naming with dynamic proof, the Internet itself becomes self-describing, self-authenticating, and truly sovereign — a network where both information and integrity can travel freely. #dnspub image

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Fascinating: the partially government funded TCP/IP kicked off a decentralized set of technologies that eventually led to Bitcoin and Nostr - and it’s a knife in the back to the control systems our owners are constructing
Not really - it’s the knife in the back of the bureaucratic middle managers who think they are building the right things. Now reading the biography of Allen Dulles who really stuck it in the back of JFK.
Yup, it really boils down to that. I have the basic prototype working, but plan to get the npub to sign the rr_sig record as well. I am working with a DNS OG to make that happen.
Discussed this at the ecash workshop last week, with the tollgate guys. we ended up imagining a vpn marketplace on Nostr with cashu payment by the kb.
Under the hood, You can specify multiple name servers so there no single point of failure. As well, you can enable to dns resolver to delegate the query, if it does not have the answer. I have that turned off for now, because I am resolving only for a leaf, not a subdomain, or root.