So does this mean that the proposal we had for anonymous domain 
registration (in the Experts Working Group report on WHOIS replacement) 
is more doable, at least with respect to solving the anonymous payment 
issue?  There still has to be a proxy WHOIS entry, which I presume still 
requires a separate track.
Stephanie Perrin

On 2015-06-11 13:41, Andrew A. Adams wrote:
> Sam,
>
> There is a fork of the bitcoin blockchain specifically designed with this in
> mind:
>
> https://namecoin.info/
>
>
> There has been also some academic work on using blockchain for domain name
> concepts. See:
>
> Providing better confidentiality and authentication on the Internet using
> Namecoin and MinimaLT
> Frederic Jacobs
> http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.6453
>
>
> Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications
> April 2015
> Difficulty control for blockchain-based consensus systems
> Daniel Kraft
> http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12083-015-0347-x
>
>