Ethereum name service: the good, the bad, and the ugly

P Xia, H Wang, Z Yu, X Liu, X Luo, G Xu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.05185, 2021 - arxiv.org
DNS has always been criticized for its inherent design flaws, making the system vulnerable
to kinds of attacks. Besides, DNS domain names are not fully controlled by the users, which …

Challenges in decentralized name management: the case of ENS

P Xia, H Wang, Z Yu, X Liu, X Luo, G Xu… - Proceedings of the 22nd …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
DNS has often been criticized for inherent design flaws, which make the system vulnerable
to attack. Further, domain names are not fully controlled by users, meaning that they can …

Unravelling ariadne's thread: Exploring the threats of decentralised dns

C Patsakis, F Casino, N Lykousas, V Katos - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The current landscape of the core Internet technologies shows considerable centralisation
with the big tech companies controlling the vast majority of traffic and services. This situation …

New kids on the block: an analysis of modern blockchains

L Anderson, R Holz, A Ponomarev, P Rimba… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
Half a decade after Bitcoin became the first widely used cryptocurrency, blockchains are
receiving considerable interest from industry and the research community. Modern …

A survey on ethereum systems security: Vulnerabilities, attacks, and defenses

H Chen, M Pendleton, L Njilla, S Xu - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2020 - dl.acm.org
Blockchain technology is believed by many to be a game changer in many application
domains. While the first generation of blockchain technology (ie, Blockchain 1.0) is almost …

A comparative study of blockchain-based dns design

Y Liu, Y Zhang, S Zhu, C Chi - Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
With the rapid development of Internet, security and privacy of the Domain Name System
(DNS) are becoming increasingly important. Thanks to its decentralized structure and …

Understanding ethereum via graph analysis

T Chen, Z Li, Y Zhu, J Chen, X Luo, JCS Lui… - ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Ethereum, a blockchain, supports its own cryptocurrency named Ether and smart contracts.
Although more than 8M smart contracts have been deployed on Ethereum, little is known …

Unearthing malicious campaigns and actors from the blockchain DNS ecosystem

F Casino, N Lykousas, V Katos, C Patsakis - Computer Communications, 2021 - Elsevier
Blockchain DNS has emerged as an alternative solution to traditional DNS to address many
of its inherent drawbacks. In this regard, a blockchain DNS approach is decentralised …

Impact of geo-distribution and mining pools on blockchains: A study of ethereum

P Silva, D Vavricka, J Barreto… - 2020 50th Annual IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Given the large adoption and economical impact of permissionless blockchains, the
complexity of the underlying systems and the adversarial environment in which they operate …

[HTML][HTML] Design and implementation of NDN-based Ethereum blockchain

QT Thai, N Ko, SH Byun, SM Kim - Journal of Network and Computer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Blockchain technology allows public parties to agree on a common state without relying on a
central authority. Despite it brings many innovative use cases, the technology is still in its …