NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information

[Come-from-Beyond]

I assume who ever generates blocks 22000, 220001 and so on for the first while is going to be making some serious transaction coins

I expect that zombies that r currently ddosing the network will become more active soon...

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[Pouncer]

http://nxt.ru - Russian e-mail service. Anyone wanna get myname@nxt.ru? In 3 months its owners will be curious why their service is becoming so popular...

Nxt Phishing Trip?

I think Alias is great for personal use (by owner of alias only), but not for third party use.
How would you trust using nxt:ru since owner of alias could divert it to a phishing site after giving it time to gain popularity?
Or is there built-in features to prevent such abuse?

[utopianfuture]

I assume who ever generates blocks 22000, 220001 and so on for the first while is going to be making some serious transaction coins

I expect that zombies that r currently ddosing the network will become more active soon...

Who are zombies ? how to kill them all ?

[Come-from-Beyond]

Or is there built-in features to prevent such abuse?

Maybe the same as conventional DNS?

[laowai80]

Who are zombies ? how to kill them all ?

shoot 'em in the head )

[Come-from-Beyond]

Who are zombies ? how to kill them all ?

They r just computers controlled by botmaster.

[Pouncer]

Or is there built-in features to prevent such abuse?

Maybe the same as conventional DNS?

Care to explain? I thought phishing attacks are mitigated by website owner instead of the DNS itself.

[laowai80]

Or is there built-in features to prevent such abuse?

Maybe the same as conventional DNS?

Care to explain? I thought phishing attacks are mitigated by website owner instead of the DNS itself.

CfB probably means that NXT system would act just as DNS service here, if the website owner decides to do something malicious, can't do much about it, just like now the conventional DNS can't control website owners' actions.

[Come-from-Beyond]

Care to explain? I thought phishing attacks are mitigated by website owner instead of the DNS itself.

Maybe I didn't get what attack u had meant.

There is no difference between aliases pointing to websites and good old DNS (except decentralized nature of AS).

[salsacz]

if at block 22000 100 people register their alias, 80 different and 20 people will ask for "sex", will it look like:

22001
- 80 people will get their different aliases
- 1 lucky guy gets "sex"?

[Come-from-Beyond]

if at block 22000 100 people register their alias, 80 different and 20 people will ask for "sex", will it look like:

22001
- 80 people will get their different aliases
- 1 lucky guy gets "sex"?

Yes.

[opticalcarrier]

Your 1 stop info source for aliases, stickied at top of forum: https://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,892.msg7334.html#msg7334
Nice work, devs thanks!

Also, be on the lookout for an absolutely amazing outstanding idea from utopianfuture.... involving REALLY getting NXT some MEGA SERIOUS visibility

[Pouncer]

Care to explain? I thought phishing attacks are mitigated by website owner instead of the DNS itself.

Maybe I didn't get what attack u had meant.

There is no difference between aliases pointing to websites and good old DNS (except decentralized nature of AS).

CfB probably means that NXT system would act just as DNS service here, if the website owner decides to do something malicious, can't do much about it, just like now the conventional DNS can't control website owners' actions.

I don't mean the website owner doing a phishing attack. I mean third parties. When users type in http://gmail.com, conventional dns directs them to google's server. If someone owns alias "gmail" and assigns it to http://gmail.com, users who type in Nxt:gmail lands up in google's server. So far so good. One day. he decides to change assignment of gmail to a gmail look-alike site to steal passwords. Of course careful users will notice changes in url, etc, but most users would just continue to use it normally. Isn't that how phishing links in emails work?

[Kazing]

Could someone explain what the "fee" and the "deadline" are for?

Does the guy with the highest fee for a certain Alias get it?

[Come-from-Beyond]

Isn't that how phishing links in emails work?

That's valid point. We should emphasize such possibility each time we tell how cool Alias System is.

[Pouncer]

Isn't that how phishing links in emails work?

That's valid point. We should emphasize such possibility each time we tell how cool Alias System is.

so owner of "google" alias may not be billionaires after all? lol

[opticalcarrier]

Could someone explain what the "fee" and the "deadline" are for?

Does the guy with the highest fee for a certain Alias get it?

see link in my post 2 above yours

[Come-from-Beyond]

so owner of "google" alias may not be billionaires after all? lol

He still could sell it to Google for 15.000.000 USD.

[Pouncer]

so owner of "google" alias may not be billionaires after all? lol

He still could sell it to Google for 15.000.000 USD.

Any way for users to know google alias is owned by Google instead of a random guy? Otherwise, people would not dare to use Nxt:google
Edit: and hence Google would not pay 15.000.000 USD for it

[Come-from-Beyond]

Any way for users to know google alias is owned by Google instead of a random guy? Otherwise, people would not dare to use Nxt:google

Yes. But browsers must support this feature.