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I didn't downvote, but let me give context for the downvotes: GNS is not a special-use TLD (like .onion/.i2p is) and it should not be something you have to setup as a user, either because your distro will set it up for you, or because your ISP will use it on their infra transparently to you (GNS is backwards-compatible with DNS protocol). It's that kind of project that either everybody will use, or nobody will.

It's a serious research project (with usability studies and all) intending to replace the DNS in its entirety, solving whole classes of problems related to enumeration, amplification attacks, query privacy... If you don't trust me you should probably check out the ICANN presentation video about GNS, it's really short and instructive. Not that ICANN is advocating for GNS, but ICANN regularly holds "future identifiers" sessions during which projects can present their R&D.



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