Namecoin Forum

I'm currently a little bit unsure on how to treat the value inside the individual fields: The IDNA standard encoding is used for internationalized domain names. This means that Unicode names need to be converted to punycoded lowercase ASCII before registering, otherwise they might not be accepted by...

NS delegation is already there. I'm not sure that a DHT really reduces storage requirements significantly. A 4096 bit RSA key is 500 bytes. Do we really expect the blockchain average zone size to be longer than 1K? If not, then we are only saving a factor of 2. RSA key sizes are rather large. If yo...

Personally I don't think that it's a good idea to store that much information in the block chain. In fact, I think that no record except a NS record and possibly a DHT record (see below) should be stored in the chain. The main advantage of the block chain is that it allows to decide which name belon...

In my opinion something like 6 months is still somewhat too short. One main reason to let domains expire after some amount of time is to free up old unused domains. But for this purpose an expiry time of 1 year (or even more) would still be sufficient (IMO). On the other hand, short expiry times imp...

Update: The Python script for the generation of the MaraDNS config is now available at: https://github.com/sysfrog/namecoin

I've just enabled an experimental new type of "resolver" for namecoin domains: One issue with the current .bit TLD is adoption, as only a small subset of users will install/configure a custom resolver. Instead, I think it would be better (or at least a good alternative) to resolve namecoin names as ...