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Besides ENS, there is also https://www.hdns.io/

none of these will be resolvable hostnames in an unmodified desktop operating system or networking device with default configuration

The same argument could have been made against TLSv1.3, IPv6 or HTTP 2/3.

See how much of the web you can access on an old IE6 installation.

I don’t think anything behind a LetsEncrypt certificate will, for example.

Companies like Microsoft, Apple, Google, et al, are absolutely never going to put this sort of hopeware alternative root into their operating systems.

Why are you still using Internet Explorer® 6 and Safari?

The next OS vendor might.

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