ZK ENS domains

[liamzebedee]

IPNS is not a great solution for dynamic content on .eth domains. It is an eventually consistent model, which suffers from all the same problems as DNS - stale caches. We live in 2022, and can design a better system. It's interesting because you can see people looking for the alternative - ie. DNSLink. DNSLink is where you put the IPNS key pointing to the new content, inside the DNS system, thus defeating the whole decentralization property. had a good chat with noah from uniswap about this.

Here's an idea:

• an uncensorable domain (.eth)
• with uncensorable content attached to it (ipfs/bittorrent)
• that can be updated cheaply ($0.01c) - on an L2.
• that is more reliable than IPNS - in that the domain content is consistently, rather than eventually consistent (up to 24h on the IPFS DHT to update an IPNS domain properly)
• that is privately and anonymously owned - only data you can see is what the domain points to.

We can build this using ZK tools today. Here's a small proposal:

• deploy a fork of ENS on an L2 like Optimism/Arbitrum
• write a ZK circuit in Circom that allows people to anonymously buy domains.
• write a ZK circuit in Circom that allows people to anonymously update domain content (contenthash).
• see what happens