Namecoin Forum

Oh very cool, will do, thanks!

I just wanted to let the good people on this forum know first that we have integrated Namecoin to allow for decentralized address shortening and possibly other content sharing in future: https://bit.co.in

Now it's working again.

OK, just FYI, for now I started using the lookup tool on https://www.namecoin.org/namelookup/index.php for this purpose. Although right now suddenly it doesn't seem to be returning results for anything anymore. Even though my namecoind does return results. The names I tested with were: bcid/nima19 b...

That page doesn't seem to be available

I agree that it is difficult to have ONE public trusted source, but I think it would be sufficient to have multiple independent services that report this kind of information.

In fact I think I may just add a lookup like that on my site once I'm done with the initial namecoin integration

I'll let others comment on the risk but as far as benefits to: this way every service provider who allows people to generate their names online conveniently could immediately have that name transferred to the requester without any extra step or delay. (I tried this again in a isolated test it does s...

Yes, I agree, that would actually be a great idea! =D

When I display a name value pair on my website, I would like to post some additional confirmation links so that people confirm that I am indeed posting information from the namecoin blockchain and not making up my own values on my website. Is there some kind of public/trusted way for people to confi...

I wrote some code that allows people to create a name/value pair and transfer control to their namecoin wallet. After 12 blocks I run the name_firstupdate command and then I also immediately run a name_update command to transfer ownership to that person's wallet. That doesn't seem to work as I get a...