Welcome to the Sea of Domains

What is the Sea of Domains?

The Sea of Domains, or just the Sea, is a collection of domain names controlled by a single, non-profit, organization

With these domains in hand, we intend to make the domains themselves like water in the ocean

The internet runs on the backbone of DNS. We plan to use that fact to store knowledge as immutable DNS TXT records with mass redundancy

What is the Sea For?

The preservation and dissemination of knowledge

Private wealth has far too great an interest in controlling the narrative

Already governmental, academic, and open-sourced knowledge is at risk

With thousands of immutable copies any attempts to alter or prevent access to information can be stopped

What We Need

Support - currently we is one person. I can do all of the individual pieces if I have to, but that would take a long, long time

This needs to become a real non-profit organization - this is time-consuming and requires expertise

This will need to be funded - but that will come as institutions realize they need somewhere their knowledge can't be perverted

Network and software engineers - this is not going to be simple - if this sounds like your thing sign on up!

The Basics

Domains are purchased or donated and held by the Sea

Once owned - the domain doesn't matter - it is part of the sea

What does matter is the organization of the information

Each domain will have some subset of information contained in the Sea

Once a record is created it cannot be changed, as verified by hash

Updates come in a git-like fashion - a new record with the modified information is added

A chain of hashed values guarantees that all information has not been modified

DNS is not the most efficient way to store data - but it is one of the most immutable

DNS is also not the most efficient way to retrieve data - but it is one of the most ubiquitous

With the right software we can make the retrieval as easy as possible

With the right software we can make the storage as efficient as possible

With the right software we can make the Sea a place where knowledge is truly free

How You Can Help

Contact Praxis (Ian Tripp) - I could really use your help spreading the word and making this a reality.