Handshake has a great community full of people interested in this experimental DNS protocol. Every single day I can check one of the Discord servers, a weekly mailer, or a Twitter thread and always find new, thought provoking conversation about the strengths and weaknesses of Handshake domains. While there has been some recent development and …
I knew as I was creating the Sites page last August that I would forget and/or become too lazy to update the Last Active section. Only 23 sites have been updated within the past year at the time of posting, so, assuming I only checked these ones, it wouldn’t be a terribly difficult task. But, …
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The way the Handshake blockchain works, anyone can own a top level domain (TLD) by winning an auction on any arbitrary string of alphanumeric characters. When I first started learning about the protocol I immediately jumped for .p101, the TLD that is currently hosting this site. But I also debated over whether or not to …
When I first thought about doing this project I envisioned each page having a small panel on the side giving information on the website. After I actually started archiving sites and realized just how huge the mountain of work ahead of me was, the overlays took a back seat. It seemed like a good idea …
I’m not really a social media person by any standards but on December 26th of last year I created a Twitter account. I noticed primarily in the Handshake circles I’m a part of that Twitter is widely used for communication and sharing new developments. These use cases fit what I needed, so during a long …
Much of the groundwork has been done already for this project. This post is going to focus on making things more sustainable and organized for the long term. Before this post I had been storing information for each site in the spreadsheet on my computer mentioned in the archival process series of posts. From there …
As I mentioned at the end of the Archival Process Part 4 post, most everything worked except for hyperlinks between domains while using a gateway (such as hns.to). To give an idea of how important it is to fix this issue, every single link on the Sites page was broken. If everyone natively resolved Handshake …
I know I said at the beginning of this series that it should only be three parts; I was going to include some additional content in Part 3 and wrap it up but then I kept running into problems which spilled over into a Part 4. In continuing with the trend of increasing difficulty throughout …
In the previous two posts we have found all of the Pirate101 fan sites and downloaded them for archiving. Now we can make them available on the web under a new domain. I am using the .p101 Handshake domain but this can be adapted to any traditional ICANN domain as well. The following steps will …
Now that we have found and made a list of all the Pirate fan sites, it’s time to start archiving them. This process can be concurrent with the previous one, and every time I found a new site I would enter it into the spread sheet and then immediately download it. There are two ways …