Just wanted to say I wouldn't pick orange - its difficult to see.

Yes I agree.

I don't know what colour though. Red means danger. Purple is what a link looks like when you've already visited it in current search engines. And green is what the URL looks like under the name when you do a normal search and the https: is usually green.

First, what is BDSN for god sake? – Google suggests I misspelled BDSM, and it does not look like you mean ‘Berkeley Digital Seismic Network’

Second – we will have an excellent platform to parallel sell quit claim deeds for prime real estate in New York, LA, Moscow, Tokyo and where ever it is profitable.  It might turn this side business is even more profitable who knows.

You're right, Oops I was meant to be writing BDNS, it's just I think I've seen Toast referring to it by that abbreviation. I'll ammend my stuff to BitShares DNS in the post above.

To me, BitShares DNS s acting like it invented a browser window with some new complicated TLD system, & added security features and you want to make adoption as seamless as possible (Like chrome vs. some other browser)  but there's no need, unlike crypto, the gateway between the two couldn't be simpler. So to me we're underselling ourselves by not making all .com's and .orgs newly available on a superior system. (At the moment it's like we're sharedropping our most valuable product onto an inferior ICANN.)

A .com on BitShares DNS has so much value because, once you have that your online brand can never be seized where as in ICANN they can take your online brand name away from you at any time. That is valuable, don't give it away for free!  The real $ are in selling .com & .org domains - the Rolls Royce TLD of value, status and recognition.

BitShares.org on ICANN may be blocked/seized at some point in the future. Wouldn't BitShares.org want to secure it's brand on BitShares DNS where it can never be touched/blocked by TPTB and where it is much more secure and private for it's users? I think BitShares.org would be willing to to pay & bid for BitShares.org on BitShares DNS.

Apple.com might not care about Apple.p2p but if we have a new superior DNS system that is growing in popularity with crypto-currency types and people who generally dissaprove of Big Brother then Apple.com will care about not owning Apple.com A LOT! If Ethereum.org doesn't secure Ethereum.org on the DNS system of the future, that's their loss not BitShares DNS!

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BitShares DNS - 'We're the decentralised orange one'
 
Everyone associates the existing TLD's with a blue colour, when you share them, or when you google/Yahoo them. By making ours Yahoo.com and BitShares DNS being a separate opt in browser everyone will know yahoo.com is not necessarily yahoo.com but there's a lot of value in an exact brand name.

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Unfortunately new businesses may not be able to build a strong brand identity around our .p2p TLD

-.P2P is unknown and has little value.
-.P2P the ICANN TLD could be bought/blocked at any time

Existing businesses wll already have a more well known ICANN TLD like Amazon.com or coinmarketcap.com that they've built their online brand and presence around, which they'd like to keep.  It's far easier for them to replicate that online presence & brand using their same TLD on BitShares DNS.

Instead of saying visit us at Bitshares.org or Bitshares.p2p  We could want to say  - 'Visit us at BitShares.org (Also on BitShares DNS)   

Now the rush will be on to secure the same TLD you brand your business by on BitShares DNS!

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While BitShares DNS is new and has little traffic, it solves all of the problems associated with ICANN. If it starts gaining traction within the crypto market, it will be incredibly important for businesses to future proof their online brand by securing their existing .com or .org  brand that they've worked hard to build on BitShares DNS, the DNS of the future!

Given the growing Big Brother trend and free people's antagonism towards it, BitShares DNS could easily be a likely sucessor to ICANN in just a few years and may perhaps be a preferrable choice for your target market, such as crypt-currency enthusiasts right away!  (Your business sales may increase by offering a BitShares DNS verson of your site.)

Will Coinmarketcap.com want to risk having built a brand name only for BitShares DNS to grow in popularity and someone offer a similar site under the brand name he's built?

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Has your  billion dollar poker brand, Pokerstars.com on ICANN been unfairly seized by an over-reaching government and all your customers blocked?
 
Pokerstars.com is still running!  'BitShares DNS users unnaffected!'

Has the oppressive Turkish government blocked Twitter.com?

Twitter.com is still running fine and is untouchable!  'BitShares DNS users unnaffected!'

Is bitcointalk.org  being spied on &/or having it's security compromised? Use bitcointalk.org for maximum security and privacy.

(In fact, given the tenous nature of Bitcoin legality can any Bitcoin related .com or  .org afford not to also put their online brand on BitShares DNS and will not many of their target market prefer & be comfortable using their well known domains on BitShares DNS in a very short space of time?)

Sorry, if I'm asking the same kind of dumb question in 5 different ways,

My point is that I want to be able to install a browser extension which hijacks normal operation of the URL bar so when I type the following in my browsers URL bar I can get to the following corresponding websites:

• google.com -> Takes me to google.com servers as determined by current ICANN DNS system

 I want to be able to install a browser extension which hijacks normal operation of the URL bar so when I type

google.com -> Takes me to google.com.p2p as determined by BDSN and I don't want to ever want see the .p2p. ever. Is this technically possible?

great 

a soon decision is better for the PTS buyers, or anyone who is interested in investing in PTS

 

Good luck with the DAC Toast! 

No, BDNS is an alternate parallel namespace which the old system has no awareness of and which requires the user to "opt-in" by either point to custom DNS server or installing an extension.

BDNS will not appear on google search results, except via a resolver like bitshar.es
We will avoid ICANN TLDs so as to not create separate ".com.ICANN" and ".com.BDNS"

Thanks,

Does BDNS have a search function that returns results from within BDNS?

I know we're avoiding ICANN TLD's, but in theory, in a BDNS version that ended all it's namespaces with .org, could BitShares buy the BDNS namespace  BitShares.org & upload the same content on their BDNS site as on their ICANN site?

Then they wouldn't be called BitShares.org.BDNS and BitShares.org.ICANN they would both be called 'BitShares.org' but the one could be accessed via say google  and the other would be accessed via BDNS right?

 

Also you guys should wait for Taulant to finish the redesign of dotp2p.io

Don't worry I won't be doing anything more myself, as in starting threads elsewhere (though I'll be happy to reply and support them.)  These were just ideas to help with marketing as I'd only seen a general discussion announcement thread in our own forums so far. But if you guys are doing some more closer to the snapshot date already or happy with the current level of awareness (& that will build itself more naturally) it's cool.

Edit: I've changed the BitToast references to BitDNS

For the Bitcointalk announcement

- The thread is usually started by a developer & it usually takes this format [ANN] [BitDNS]

then maybe 'NameCoin killer! Snapshot 21/08 & Launching within a month! ? or 'Alternative DNS system?'

(I think the easiest way to market BitDNS pre snapshot is maybe Namecoin imo.  Most have an idea of what Namecoin is. So when you say 'Namecoin killer', it already communicates a lot about BitDNS in two words.)

The specifications and allocation model should be the main thing at the start.

Questions

Do we have a firm working name yet?
Do we have a firm allocation model?
Can we share video?                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeweF05tT50&feature=youtu.be

Showing a screenshot/embedding video (I don't know what you call it) on the announcement will really separate this from other crappy announcements, people can immediately see this is something real with real development , not an idea. The graphics and content on that video are really good.

I would also put the website dotp2p.io in the announcement.

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I would then highlight only the top few simple to understand,  attention grabbing points. What are they? I'm not sure, off the top of my head -

1. BitToast is a NameCoin killer & MUCH MUCH more! It will be up and running by next month! (The snapshot takes place from BitShares-PTS on 21/08 and you will be able to trade your BitDNS shares on the exchanges within a month.)

2. A domain name on BitDNS can never be siezed and is free from man in the middle attacks & using  DNS servers /browser plugins / "invisible" clients  it creates a seamless browsing experience

3. It solves the problem of domain name squatting by using auctions! You can also make money by participating in auctions too!

4. It uses the BitShares DPOS blockchains & TITAN which means 10 second confirmation times, simple user account names & anonymous transactions! (The DPOS blockchains are already burning rubber on an already released BitShares DAC, BitShares X, download the wallet (link) and test drive these blockchains for yourself!)

5. With equity release via delegates the DAC is well funded for development and marketing and there is no central point of failure once it is up and running. 

Any thoughts?

Then can have the more detailed announcement  https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=6509.msg86561#msg86561

Edit: Obviously the devs will decide what content to put in their BTT announcement thread if they even decide it's in their interest to do one, and I'll be happy to support it. Just trying to give my ideas