Two more adapters under Settings › Names & Certificates:
Namecoin — .bit names resolve by calling name_show "d/<name>" on the
configured JSON-RPC endpoint and following `translate` or `alias` records
to a clearnet host. Pure IP records aren't followed yet (that needs
in-browser DNS override + TLS pinning, which comes later). Namecoin has
no free public RPC, so the toggle is off by default and the row carries a
"Needs an RPC URL" note instead of a "Not wired yet" one; set yours in
Advanced.
Handshake — non-ICANN hostnames resolve through the public hns.to web
gateway (user-overridable in Advanced). hns.to proxies the request to a
Handshake node and serves the on-chain content. A bundled list of common
ICANN TLDs (original gTLDs + popular new gTLDs + every ccTLD) keeps the
default collision policy ("icann-wins") from hijacking clearnet names.
Setting the policy to "hns-wins" removes that gate.
Both adapters follow the ENS adapter's shape — tryExtraResolvers in main.js
calls each in turn after the BNS lookup; the first one that returns a URL
loads it. Settings copy on both rows updated.
First real resolver behind the Names & Certificates toggles. When the ENS
switch is on, typing a .eth name in the address bar runs:
1. namehash(name) (EIP-137 keccak256 recursion)
2. eth_call resolver(bytes32) on the ENS registry
3. eth_call contenthash(bytes32) on the returned resolver address
4. decode EIP-1577 (varint protocol + CID) → ipfs|ipns|swarm
5. navigate to <gateway>/ipfs/<cid> (or /ipns/<cid>)
The adapter lives in lib/resolvers/ens.cjs; main.js's navigateTab calls it
through tryExtraResolvers after the BNS check and before the clearnet
fallback. Defaults: publicnode's free Ethereum RPC (Cloudflare's eth-RPC
returns "Internal error" for ENS calls in testing) and ipfs.io as the
gateway (Cloudflare retired their IPFS gateway in 2024). Both are
user-overridable in Settings › Names & Certificates › Advanced.
CIDv0 (Qm… base58) and CIDv1 (bafy… base32) both encode; swarm names
cache a "not yet supported" negative result for one minute until we add a
swarm gateway option. Positive answers cache for 10 min, negatives for 1 min.
