Namecoin Forum

Let's pretend for a moment that the world is not absolutely obsessed with decentralization. I don't know enough about DNS stuff to know the context of this. Why not use Amazon Route 53? The biggest benefit being that it is robust and fast. Namecoin is for decentralization and if we give it up this ...

Forcing users to make those decisions will harm them in the long run. Interesting point of view. :lol: Namecoin as it currently exists is already capable of all of these; there's no reason to make them mutually exclusive. Namecoin maybe can but the browsers cannot. Even in the future it will be hig...

There is a good reason IMHO why there are no spaces allowed in eMail addresses. Same goes for upper case in id/ from my point of view. I agree. I think that spaces can very well be allowed - currently, they are according to the wiki "spec". This allows for something like "firstname lastname", and I...

BitAuth from BitPay
Is this a NameID concurrent or I misunderstood something ?
http://blog.bitpay.com/2014/07/01/bitau ... ation.html
https://github.com/bitid/bitid

Maybe we can learn something from them or see from another perspective.

I would definitely like to see Armory ported to Namecoin. Cold storage is potentially more important for names than for currency because names are nonfungible and therefore irreplacable if stolen. A UTXO-based wallet would be great too, although that's already being worked on. You mean a cold walle...

Millions of dynamic DNS users suffer after Microsoft seizes No-IP domains

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06 ... p-domains/

Namecoin was long time alone with its unique features but now appeared a lot of coins which claim similar features. They are still not better but they have money and can afford a good marketing campaign and a paid development team. Namecoin had a clean start with no premine or instamine and even no ...

http://www.coindesk.com/speculators-seek-cash-bitcoin-domain-name-boom/ Some domain name investors and brokers believe bitcoin has opened a new category in the sector. Niko Younts is one such investor, and with good reason. It was he who sold the BitcoinWallet.com domain name for $250,000 in Februa...

Now even the organizers recognize some irregularities by the crowdsale with fund loss effect: http://www.coindesk.com/maidsafe-lessons-learned-crowdsale/ However the idea of crowd-funding and decentralized storage is not bad. Something like this with 8 millions $ would help the Namecoin development ...

Something like Slyhook with 999$ would be ideal if it could be configured for Namecoin: http://www.coindesk.com/skyhook-ships-150th-bitcoin-atm/ http://www.coindesk.com/skyhook-releases-portable-open-source-bitcoin-atm-999/ For registering name entries on a physical machine would be more difficult t...