Tim Berners-Lee says internet DNS should have been more decentralized

Tim Berners-Lee said at ETH Prague that if he were designing a domain system today, he would make it more decentralized, in a nod to concerns over DNS centralization.

World Wide Web and hypertext markup language (HTML) inventor Tim Berners-Lee said that if he were building a domain name service (DNS) today, he would make it “more decentralized.”

Speaking at ETH Prague on stage alongside Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, Berners-Lee reflected on early internet architecture decisions.

“If I could go back […] I would make it more decentralized,“ he said.

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