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There are currently 1-2 developers working on Namecoin (mostly Khan, another core developer died recently). Namecoin itself has quite a few issues. The design is only the beginning.


My brain cells hurt today. I got excited about cheap domain names. Went to link; and saw $135 for a domain name? Then went to a link; and saw a we are sorry letter-- too many requests. In all reality, why can the founders of these sites explain what they are doing better? Use 1. this is what. 2. I am up to. 3. today is Sunday. Use short choppy sentences. Just get to the point. By the time I really understood Bitcoin, they were too expensive to mine. Maybe that's the catch?


Can you elaborate on the issues you allude to? The "criticism" section on wikipedia is pretty thin.


well, at the moment there is not much reason to use the system. if you register a ".bit" then you have to get your users to install complicated software and in the end what you are getting is very similar to ".com". There are major benefits, which are not explored yet. rolling out a world wide nameservice is not trivial. at the moment it's not even used by the underground. onename.io is the first application I have seen.




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