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In this growing age of the Internet, people want to have a domain name relevant to their work. In scenarios of already taken domain names, the widely adopted technique is to buy from someone through the secondary market and brokers. However, the existing solutions for the secondary market of domain names are centralized and demand huge commission fee. This paper presents a secure, decentralized, and cheaper platform for buying and selling aftermarket domain names using Blockchain Technology. The work focuses on growing a secondary market of domains and entities involved with legacy Domain Name System (DNS) architecture but currently shares nothing with Blockchain-based DNS architecture. With that said, the idea is to implement a Blockchain-based service on top of the existing DNS to allow Domain owners (potential sellers) and buyers to interact directly without any middleman in between the two parties involved.
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Sharma, H., Kumar, U., Mulay, A., Kumar, R., Patel, S.J. (2022). Democratic Aftermarket for Domain Names. In: Rao, U.P., Patel, S.J., Raj, P., Visconti, A. (eds) Security, Privacy and Data Analytics. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 848. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9089-1_4
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