Motivation The Domain Name System today enables traffic amplification attacks, censorship (i.e. China), mass surveillance (MORECOWBELL) and offensive cyber war (QUANTUMDNS). Unfortunately, band aid solutions such as DoT, DoH, DNSSEC, DPRIVE and the like will not fix this. This is why we built the GNU Name System (GNS), a secure, decentralized name system built on top of GNUnet. Overview The GNU Na