Handshake

Introducing

Handshake is a groundbreaking, decentralized, and permissionless naming protocol where each participant takes on the responsibility of validating and overseeing the root DNS naming zone. Its objective is to provide an alternative to the current Certificate Authorities and naming systems. Traditional internet identifiers like top-level domains and social media handles depend on central entities with full control. These entities, unfortunately, can fall victim to hacking, censorship, and corruption. Handshake’s mission is to explore novel approaches for a more secure, resilient, and socially beneficial internet. Through a peer-to-peer framework verified by the network’s participants, Handshake seeks to revolutionize the way we think about online interactions.

The Current Landscape: Built on TLDs like .com, .org, .in, and more. For instance, in “google.com,” ‘google’ is the name, and ‘.com’ is the TLD. In Web3.0, YOUR user ID is YOURS to control, making the namespace a crucial concept for all internet users. As Web3.0 evolves, the namespace’s potential uses will expand, even to the point where nations embrace them, propelling societal digitization forward. It’s vital that this development is all-encompassing and fulfills everyone’s aspirations.

Handshake is an experiment that aims to explore innovative ways to construct a more decentralized internet. Services on the internet began to centralize in the 1990s, but they didn’t quite match the initial vision of a decentralized web. Email transformed into Gmail, usenet evolved into Reddit, blog comments turned into Facebook and Medium interactions, pingbacks shifted to Twitter, squid morphed into Cloudflare, and even gnutella took the form of The Pirate Bay.

Handshake TLDs are being sold on Namecheap | Porkbun | EnCirca | 101domain | Agaamin.in and the latest HNS.ID *many new HNS registrars from TLD owners are being built for their respective TLDs everyday. We follow the HNS progress on Twitter daily.

See the latest Handshake Blockchain Domains registrations: