Namecoin Forum

Personally I think this is a bug that should be fixed in the client.

Do you verify ownership when someone tries to put a name up?

Is there even a market for them? Some people seem to be asking for ridiculous values. Have any sold?

Is anyone able to provide any research on what squatted domains actually sell for in the real world? Is trademark law typically used to seize them, or are they just sold as standard goods to the company who owns the trademark and wants the domain? A squatted domain does not sell in the real world. ...

I don't think this is a problem Namecoin has to or should (because Namecoin is just an arbitrary key/value store, right?) handle. Every major browser has protection against this by showing mixed script domains as Punycode, so it's already a solved problem at the browser level.

The ICANN domain namespace is packed with squatters, do they then get a free ride to Namecoin? If you're going to do it like that why not look at an actual TM database and figure it out that way?