I... might have figured out a potential solution to the ICANN issue, one that utilizies Bitcoin (without putting any data in it, it's blocks/transactions/nodes) and nostr, and without needing to have a new blockchain (no pow or pos or currency even).
I'll digest it a bit more, then circle the idea with others, then if it passes that I'll open up the discussion publicly.
It's not a perfect solution, but a shit ton better than a raw public address.
I've been thinking about this for years, and Nomen was close but considering my realization of the core 30 issue and me being a bitcoin monetary purest, and i guess others pointed out a scalability issue with it, it didn't pan out, so I really hope what I thought of is a good idea, so we can be rid of ICANN and solve a bunch of other issues because of it (like having an email address you own and so on).
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Let's say I have a nostr website.
Right now, if you want to visit it (on a nostr supported browser for now), you have to input:
neddr1qvzqqqrkcgpzph2jv2ejvdk27hn36dt57j6f69f5h0zccve3xceujq5z9jk8ym8wqp4nxvp5xqer5eryx5ervvnzxvervvekvdskvdt9xuckgve4xu6xvdrzxsukgvf4xv6xycnrx5uxxvenxvcnxd3nxd3njvpj8qerycmpvvmnydnrv4jn5wrpv5mrvwpsxgknxwp4xqkngetpxqknjd35xcknsv3cv9jnxvtp8ycxyegq5ndhc
However, with what I'm cookin, you'd simply input:
freakoverse.n1m1.5
Or:
freakoverse.n1324768.23
Or:
freakoverse.n1m
What's after the name depends on a few things, but it could be any of those or others, depending on what can be obtained. (There's also a different kind of example for this, but will leave that for later).
So basically it can be as easy as a .com or as difficult as remembering/telling a phone number like in the past (and that would be the max difficulty for this domaim naming system).
Right now I'm figuring out the policy for this system, as well as seeing if a domain transfer can happen (unlikely), and if you can change the name (also unlikely).