Can not renew my name

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yyp
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Joined: Sat Mar 25, 2017 3:15 pm
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Can not renew my name

Post by yyp »

Hello,

I have a name expired. when I renew, an error occurred:
"this name can not be updated (code -25)"

I found the "code -25" error in github, but i don't understand :(

What should I do? Thanks!

cassini
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Joined: Sun May 26, 2013 6:36 pm

Re: Can not renew my name

Post by cassini »

yyp wrote:I have a name expired.
If the name is expired, then it is expired. This means, that you waited too long (more than 36000 blocks = 6 months approximately) before you tried to update or renew it.

You can try to register it again:

1) Check whether the name is still available. Example: if that name was "my-yyp-idea" then you enter

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name_show d/my-yyp-idea
on the command line or in the DebugWindow--->Console

2) If it is still available then simply register it as a new name, just like you did when you registered it the first time.

We can give you more specific advice only if you give us some more details, i.e. the Namecoin client version, and a transaction id or similar.

johnc
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Re: Can not renew my name

Post by johnc »

yeah, it's not really intuitive, but it's as simple as register the name from the start again.

if you can't... then some domain-squatter must have registered it.

in fact, this error should only happen in the later situation.

yyp
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Re: Can not renew my name

Post by yyp »

I am try to register the name again and it working! It bothers me for a long time.

Thank you very much!

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