Thinking about this a little bit... could we use a blockchain ledger as an authoritative source for DNS records?

User's can publish their DNS + pub key to the append-only blockchain, signed with their private key.

Use a torrent file to connect to an initial tracker to download the blockchain.

Once the blockchain is downloaded, every computer would have a full copy of the DNS database and could use that for discoverability.

I have no experience with blockchains or building trackers, so maybe this is a dumb idea.

Its been tried/done but attracted the same audience of investors looking to make a quick buck as opposed to looking to actually make it work.

From what i've seen you need some minimum percentage of makeithappen-ers amoung those interested in a project.

It seems the guy running the extension just left. With minimum influence on the value.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/b-dns/

https://www.coinbase.com/en-nl/price/namecoin

Look into IPFS and ENS.