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A domain name management system based on account-based consortium blockchain

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Due to the functionality for mapping domain names to IP addresses, the Domain Name System (DNS) is a critical component of the running of the Internet. However, the current DNS receives many criticisms. For instance, its centralized architecture may cause a single point of failure or power abuse. To solve this problem, many works suggest using the decentralization property of the blockchain. Nevertheless, the existing blockchain-based DNSs cannot support the whole life cycle of domain names or sealed-bid auctions for domain names. In this paper, aiming to address these problems, we propose a domain name management system by integrating some advanced cryptographic primitives, such as commitment and zero-knowledge proof, and an account-based blockchain system with the anonymous fund. The detailed security analysis indicates that our proposal holds fairness, fund-privacy, and payment-guarantee. We implement a prototype of our proposal, including the underlying account-based blockchain and the related smart contracts. The extensive experimental results conduct that our proposal is (relatively) efficient and effective.

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The source code of the proposal can be found at https://github.com/EmmaLu-ux/paperDemo.

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  1. This work extends the paper that was published at EAI AC3 2021 (Lu et al. [13])

  2. https://github.com/EmmaLu-ux/paperDemo

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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China [2019YFB1804500] and the National Natural Science Foundation of China [62272413].

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  2. School of Information and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, 310018, China

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Miss. Genhua Lu participated in all processes of the paper, including participating in the original design and writing of the idea of the domain name management system based on an account-based consortium blockchain and participating in writing each part of the paper. Mr. Xiaofeng Jia is the leading performer in the experimental part of the paper. Furthermore, he also organized and analyzed the experimental data. Miss. Yi Zhang designed the Vickrey auction part. Prof. Jun Shao raised the problems of the existing domain name system. Prof. Guiyi Wei proposed the account-based consortium blockchain. In the final stage, all authors discussed and revised the content of each part of this paper.

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Lu, G., Jia, X., Zhang, Y. et al. A domain name management system based on account-based consortium blockchain. Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl. 16, 1211–1226 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-023-01455-3

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