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So, what happens if your domain gets hijacked?
If somebody gets your private key, they can "steal" your website away from you, sure. Just don't let anybody access your private key.
To me the real problem with namecoin for the purpose stated in the title of this post is that it doesn't emphasize delegation to near the degree necessary to achieve it. The current implementation is much more like the older name system in that it requires the list of canonical names to be distributed as widely as possible. There is a reason the root nameservers only delegate the act of name lookup at the top level.…
[1] No I don't really think Google would let that happen but Bob's Bakery Buns might and it could cost him his business.
I'll plug BitShares DNS--a Namecoin competitor I am working on--here: http://nmushegian.github.io/dns/ Whitepaper and FAQ are not quite up to date but you get the idea. From: https://github.com/nmushegian/dns/blob/master/whitepaper.md#... - Namecoin issues new coins to miners as a reward for performing merged mining with the Bitcoin network. The namecoin supply is being inflated at nearly 30% per year for several mor…
I expect it will obsolete ICANN as effectively as AlterNIC, New.net, OpenNIC, etc. The technical fact that it is blockchain-based really doesn't make much difference as it's incredibly unlikely to be adopted worldwide, due to the network effect of the already-established domain name system.
It's a hurdle, but it's not insurmountable. The question is whether namecoin provides anything sufficiently more appealing to all players to overcome that headwind...
I am using namecoin to resolve bittorrent sync secrets in my distributed browser Syncnet: https://github.com/jminardi/syncnet It was fairly easy to integrate
I am using namecoin to resolve bittorrent sync secrets in my distributed browser Syncnet: https://github.com/jminardi/syncnet It was fairly easy to integrate
I am using namecoin to resolve bittorrent sync secrets in my distributed browser Syncnet: https://github.com/jminardi/syncnet It was fairly easy to integrate
This is interesting. Could the static HTML files connect to decentralized databases?
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This is interesting. Could the static HTML files connect to decentralized databases?
Almost certainly if there were a decentralized database that exhibited bitcoin / namecoin like behaviour.
Definitely looking forward to distributed storage apps; other projects in progress include BitCloud, MaidSafe, and Ethereum.
Can I register google.bit, facebook.bit, apple.bit, oracle.bit, and microsoft.bit for a total of $0.25? Can they do anything to get it back?
No, you could not register those names. Because they are already registered. They could ask very nicely for ownership of them, or perhaps send you a court order depending on what country the both of you were located in. But unless you provide them with the private key or fail to renew your registration... nobody should ever gain control of any .bit domain. A Kraken.com dev looking into the namecoin code found a flaw…
Who are they registered by?