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rglullis on April 13, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: I made a website to search for half loave...

You joke, but that's exactly what domain names are.

recursive on April 13, 2022 [–]

Domain names come from central authorities. Transfers are reported to the registrar.

rglullis on April 13, 2022 | [–]

Regardless, they are non-fungible tokens with expiration date.

But if you really want to be extra pedantic: the Ethereum Name System is a domain system running on the blockchain, and each domain is a NFT with an expiration date.

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