Havent ready it all. But how do you get a short name, what's the tie-breaker if two keys want one short name. I think pubky is very sensibly only tackling one thing at a time. And how is the DNS done? Is it censorship resistant?

Will, one thing you will love about this is: I said it's "free", but actually not quite, nothing is free. But I have analyzed the cost of sumbitting a DNS record, and it comes down to about 1 micro sat. Imagine doing something pretty useful for 1 microsat, and how granular an economy you can make. Then we start to price everything in microsats, get a full ultra micro economy gong where the units do something useful.

The point isn't control. Having short names complicates things and makes it much harder to be permissionless and censorship resistance. Because it requires some mechanism to decide who owns what, and that boils down to either central authority, or a consortium, or miners of a block chain. So, no, not only is Pkarr not like zeronet, we don't even encourage vanity addresses, we want keys to be like phone numbers, you own it, people alias it, and everyone is sovereign and happy.