How does DNS work in maidsafe?

[robinhood]

To find an app or someone’s public uploads, will I have to type in a public key like an onion address, or will there be a DNS system builtin to maidsafe?

In my opinion a builtin DNS system is critical for mass adoption. The only people who can tolerate cryptic public keys are the tech savvy.

[happybeing]

Yes there is a kind of DNS, using public identifiers akin to web domains, which map to the full key. People create public ids and get them on a first come first served basis.

There is a discussion about this somewhere on the forum, and here is David answering the question:

Ideas for DNS on Maidsafe

I’m actually responding to this video of David, because I don’t think Maidsafes namespace or more DNS (if there is even sucha thing) should be first come first served. Namecoin had this idea of “first come, first served”. I think it’s an bad idea, because domain squatting is with everything nowadays. P2P another decentralized DNS fight domain squatting with an auction. So the more you pay the better your changes are to get a domain. this is in my opinion also not the solution. W…

I’m moving this to “Features” as I think its a network feature rather than a network application.

[robinhood]

Thanks should really have done a search for DNS before I started this