IPFS Weekly Call, 4 May 2020

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From YouTube: Unstoppable Domains - 2020-05-04 IPFS Weekly Call 🙌📞

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This week has a presentation from Unstoppable Domains: Blockchain Domains & Decentralized Web tools

View slides here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-7pOxdb2qYPXqcukF8CBzzEF507fiCH0wW6aTJN4E2I

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A

Hi everybody welcome to the ipfs weekly call plans. Add-In I'll be running you through this meeting.

A

So first things. First, you need a note taker. Do we have any volunteers.

A

Alan. Thank you. Thank you much much appreciated. If your name is nothing.

B

Sal and you cut out their say again, I'm just saying I know how painful it is waiting for people to volunteer. So if, when I fall into much.

A

Appreciated yeah, if you're here and you want to drop your name in the attendees list, that would also be appreciated. The doc is in zoom Thank You Jessica.

A

Okay, do we have any additional agenda items? Anything anyone wants to add. Please add it to the document and then we will get to it.

A

My personal announcement is that if we, if you have not noticed oh I, believe I see 0.5 was released. If you have not upgraded, you should upgrade. It will improve your experience as well as those who are on the network already, so give it a shot.

A

All right! Well, yes, then, without further ado, I'm going to hand it over to our presenter for the day.

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C

Moe galaxy dope over here, I'm Braden I'm from unstoppable domains. Let me show my screen a little a little stump speech to give here yeah. So oh I only have here's the person cool, so we are unstoppable domains and we make blockchain domain names that resolve to decentralize websites so yeah. So we launched unstoppable domains in 2018 and we got funding and of grown sons then, and we build blockchain domain registries, so we released the dot crypto extension on etherium and Zille on the silica blockchain.

C

We operate a registrar where we sell domains at unstoppable domains, calm so kind of like a GoDaddy like interface, and we are building decentralized web tools that resolve websites. Like a browser. We have a Chrome extension.

C

We are making some ipfs web templates that people can people can interact with we've built some deploy tools so that you can deploy decentralized websites to our naming service and we also are doing business integrations with wallets to like resolve cryptocurrency addresses and also allow people to resolve ipfs websites.

C

So a blockchain domain name is just like a DNS domain name except it's stored on a smart contract, which means that it's got all those nice chain. Security guarantees, it's a self custody asset, which means that it again has all those nice like blockchain like properties, and we resolve crypto addresses websites and other metadata depending on what you want. And why do we need the decentralized web?

C

Well, it's really important that files are decentralized and available to everyone, but it's just as important that the way we look up, those files is decentralized and fault, tolerant and so yeah. There have been more and more issues with with like registrar's and companies. Hiking fees in the space like Verisign has been trying to hike prices, org got sold and it's gonna hike prices and yeah. We want to avoid all that.

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C

What we built is suite of smart contracts to resolve, resolve this stuff. We've built a transaction processor and an easy UI, so that users don't have to have any if they're a.m. and can still trust, lessly configure and deploy these websites and.

C

Again, we've built a pretty simple and extendable interface for just fetching key values off the blockchain and resolving those values to ipfs web sites. So you go on to unstoppable domains, calm you can search and by name you can claim it with meta mask type wallet.

C

You can upload like a website to I PFS and configure your cryptocurrency addresses and stuff with a private key and a signature just by like using like web three, each sign or yeah and we've started building our our decentralized web tools since the beginning of and kind of middle of last year. So we've got a browser that runs an IP FS note inside that can resolve that can resolve websites. We've got a Chrome extension and then we also recently got integrated with opera on Android.

C

So if you have, if you have an Android phone, you can resolve that crypto domains on your mobile oops we've got static templates. We've got a simple file uploader, where you can design a static website on your local and then just upload it, and then we're using pinata. Who I see is here for pinning on ipfs so that we can ensure that everyone's up we've got our library on our github? We've got some API Docs too. If you want to look at it and then we've got some partners when we got more on our site.

C

If you want to see who else is integrated and then here are some nice numbers, so lots of domains, we've seen an uptick in websites to 3,000 and then we've also got a fairly large user base.

C

Now and then we've got these companies working with us, so my the wallet is doing, resolution aetherium or sorry ether scan is or sorry. My through wallet is also like launching their own ipfs website. Either scan is doing search. Engine khyber network and switcharoo are are also launching ipfs websites.

C

Pinata is doing our pinning Thank You pinata and then each male is planning something and view block also has search inside them. There. A block explore yeah and here are some more links.

C

If you want to download the presentation and go check some stuff out for the IPF has templates resolution, the browser and anything else were definitely down to talk.

C

Yeah. We're super excited about all this yeah and that's it I kind of wanted to leave a lot of this presentation open to questions. So, if anyone has anything, I'd be more than happy to happy to talk.

A

Well, thanks a lot, that's that's fantastic. Does anyone have any questions about.

C

The browser sure so the browser oops I, have the old version. I do most of my night work on my laptop, but the browser you can find on our website and you can download it right here so there's now here it is and.

C

The browser can resolve eath, duck, crypto domains and.

C

Works wonderfully, does it does it white if this with it? No, it does not it bundles, JSI, PFS, nice, okay, yeah. So it's a Zambian.

B

C

Yeah and it's open source, so you can go look at the source code on our github, which is that github install whoops.

C

Quince awful domains and then.

C

Now so here it is, you can check it out and if you want to see a list of websites which we call it view block.

C

Has indexed all our dill and our crypto websites, so you can go here on view block and I can drop this inside chat where's. My zoom.

C

There's chat a.

D

Unique feature of the browser is that when you go to a website you get the option to with one click turn on the ipfs node. So you have a method for unenthused an incentive eyes, getting a lot of different nodes to support some specific content yep. So here we go boo, Boop with.

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And so you can, if you go on view block here, you can see the big litany of lots and lots of domains and then there's also.

C

Yeah I know: are there any other resources Brad for seeing websites not yet right? There is one other list, so I'll drop in.

C

Yeah we're trying to move so right now. There's the search functionality and the an actual browser have not quite merged yet right, but pretty soon we're gonna we're getting it to a point where you can actually do your searching up here with a blockchain search engine which will be pretty cool.

C

But for right now you have to know what site you want to visit and you can bookmark stuff over here once you know, but yeah. It's still. It's still very much work in progress so far, but it is. It is awesome because it really does resolve the centralized websites.

A

E

And what else I got a question about potential interlock with existing DNS sure? Are you playing something like like DNS proxy, exposing Zeile and crypto names over like regular old-school DNS, so that clients can just resolve it? So, yes, that is definitely.

C

Coming we are really also interested in like actually integrating with ICANN itself too so, but yeah those tools have not been made quite yet.

D

Well, we have Zil dot, link for 4 dot like a downsell like a mirror for dull domains and I believe we have one coming for dark crypto as well, but we're also really just focused on getting integrations with browsers. So you can actually just view the decisional natively yeah.

E

Cool. Thank you.

A

Add one, which is: what is your guys approach to dealing with domain squadron.

D

So the I think the the conversation around domain squating winds up being around a couple of different things. I think one thing is around like brand protection and another thing is around: who gets all the best names and so for the first question of brand protection, we imitated the process, what's called Sunrise process, that's done by traditional domain registries, meaning that we identified brand names and blocked them so that they cannot be registered by anyone other than the brand owner and so like.

D

This is like all crypto companies, all major companies like Google or whatever else, and we actually decided to just take that namespace and give them away for free of those brands when they come to us and the idea there was we wanted to prevent squatting. We also wanted to onboard companies and for the most part we imagine, the companies are probably not actually going to care about this for several years until it gets bigger, but we didn't want them to when they eventually care not be able to get their grant.

D

So we are getting them to claim over time and see. We actually have already had. Maybe I think ten fortune 1000 companies claim their names so far and a whole bunch of crypto companies. So that's squatting on the on the like brand protections on the brand protection side. I think that's super important. If you don't do that, you're gonna have major problems with your registry and with browsers, you know, being willing to support it and then on the like top domains. I think that is something that you know. Their wounds are one-time fees.

D

So, if your earlier you do, you have the potential to get some of the better names. You know we're. Okay, with that, as long as it doesn't wind up in the hands of a really small number of people, I, don't I, don't really see that as unhealthy there's a you know, there's a secondary market and everything else like that. So.

A

Yeah thanks any any other questions on the crowd and I got that stuff. I have.

F

One question I was curious: what the plan for the browsers are for the browser. Is it a temporary solution, or is it a something you think go into.

C

It in an ideal world we wouldn't need the unstoppable browser like we don't really want to be.

C

We don't really want to maintain and have a browser and plus, like other people like if we got Chrome to resolve decrypted names, I, don't think that we would have I, don't think that we would have a unstoppable browser because we don't want to have to like support extensions and all the other things that a browser has so like in the short term, we built a browser to show it can be done and make it functional. But it's not our dream to become a browser company yeah.

D

We were really just trying to kind of set an example for the browser community. Like you know, right now, a lot of what's happening is is that people are building stuff with you know with like ipfs gateways, you know CloudFlare and other stuff, and we wanted to provide an example to the market of what it looks like when you have. You know the ipfs node actually inside and hope that and try to encourage that as a standard, I I think this is.

D

This is something that, like we're really like trying to push towards the browser community in general, and if we can do that, there's like in terms of like actual browsing, we don't think people are gonna, be using our browser. It's called a demo browser it's for developers. Dui is bad. We're really just trying to, and also this like concept of one instead of us sharing.

D

Turning on a node when you go to a website, I think is another important feature that we would want to encourage browsers to have, but in terms of our users right now, I think most people are using our Chrome extension or are using opera and are likely to be using other tools in the future there they're, not people, are not going to be using our tools over the long term. We don't think we're just we're trying to integrate with you know, extensions, browsers, etc.

C

A

Nope I'll, oh well,.

D

Thanks a lot, that's fantastic! Like it's a bunch! Everybody and I know we kind of glossed over this, but we we've been watching these ipfs templates. Actually, do you think it makes sense to just show it real quick, because the the templates might just be one other thing that people be curious about we're, trying to basically we're trying to provide tools that don't require for non-technical users to be able to launch ipfs websites, and so we already have the like.

D

Pinata pinning function built into the built into the application, and we now have these like widgets, where you can launch a profile page and pretty soon you'll be able to launch a blog, hopefully a little ecommerce store and we're looking for developers who are building tools like this. That would want to share them with our users. You could sell them to our users. You can give them away for free to our users, but our users have high intent to launch a decentralized website because they just purchased a blockchain domain.

D

So yeah I think you can go to. You know: choose a template.

D

And so it's kind of like decentralize with you know, decentralized web builder, where you've got like a few variables, you can change and so forth.

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I think that's probably it yep.

A

All right! Well, thanks for buddy for Johnny and looking forward to seeing you all next week.

D

Thanks everybody and shout out to Matt in yata for making it happen.