1) why so difficult to renew your .bit domain ? am I missing something
2) No renewal period or renewal warnings
lost my first few .bit registrations - needless to say am not happy
how do you renew a .bit ?
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Re: how do you renew a .bit ?
Daniel submitted a PR 3 days ago with an explicit "renew" feature.kurt wrote:1) why so difficult to renew your .bit domain ? am I missing something
https://github.com/namecoin/namecoin/pull/146
However, it's been easy to renew your name: double click the name in Namecoin-Qt, and click OK.
There is a proposal to make names stop resolving before control of the name is lost: https://wiki.namecoin.info/index.php?ti ... ireWarning . This way, you'll notice that your website is down well before you lose the domain. Would this partially address your concern?kurt wrote:2) No renewal period or renewal warnings
Sorry to hear this. This is unfortunately too common -- I agree that this should be addressed.kurt wrote:lost my first few .bit registrations - needless to say am not happy
Re: how do you renew a .bit ?
Thanks... just totally hacked off with losing my .bit domains then finding out that someone else has registered them.
If you have to renew every 7 months and keep checking just in case the blocks age quicker - just doesn't make sense to use .bit
I would put it down as a critical flaw
If you have to renew every 7 months and keep checking just in case the blocks age quicker - just doesn't make sense to use .bit
I would put it down as a critical flaw
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Re: how do you renew a .bit ?
Yep, it certainly needs to be resolver before .bit is competitive with ICANN domains. Would the proposal I linked above be helpful in your opinion?kurt wrote:Thanks... just totally hacked off with losing my .bit domains then finding out that someone else has registered them.
If you have to renew every 7 months and keep checking just in case the blocks age quicker - just doesn't make sense to use .bit
I would put it down as a critical flaw
Re: how do you renew a .bit ?
very much so