Cipr Launches Decentralized Web Index Letting Domain Owners Control Their Own Listings
Cipr, short for Cosmic Index of Public Resources, is a new decentralized, peer-to-peer web directory where domain owners publish their own entries via a small daemon and a DNS TXT record, with no central authority able to remove them. Unlike traditional search engines, every participant holds a full copy of the index, which stays synchronized through viral propagation and ranks results using the auditable BM25 algorithm over owner-declared metadata. The project targets the small web, including personal blogs, homelabs, and independent projects that mainstream search engines tend to overlook. Ciprnode Zero, the reference implementation built on Deno with SQLite and zero npm dependencies, compiles to a standalone binary for Linux, Windows, and macOS and is MIT licensed. Three live nodes are already running, and the project requires no blockchain, no token, and no central server.
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