Why is there a minimum name_firstupdate fee of 0.01 NC? Won't registrations become extremely expensive if namecoins rise too much in value?

Also why is this fee destroyed instead of given back to miners?

Say your .bit domain is example.bit
Say your existing website is example.com.
example.com has ip 192.0.32.10
www.example.com has ip 192.0.32.10
example.com has ns A.IANA-SERVERS.NET & B.IANA-SERVERS.NET

You have two options to configure your domain :
A. put the ip address of your webserver directly for "" (for eindomain.bit :p) and www (for www.eindomain.bit)
* set json-value: "{\"map\": {\"\": \"192.0.32.10\"}, {\"www\": \"192.0.32.10\"}}"
* add example.bit in the same interface where you added example.com
If your web hosting provider don't accept unknown TLDs (.bit for ex :p), you must use another provider

B. put the same nameservers used by your other domain
* set json-value: "{\"map\": {\"\": {\"ns\": [\"A.IANA-SERVERS.NET\", \"B.IANA-SERVERS.NET\"]}}}"
* add example.bit in the same interface where you added example.com
If you can only add a domain by registering it, you can't use this method.

Then :
* if you want a redirect, add an html or php file to redirect to example.com
* if you want to browse directly on example.bit, configure it to point to the same folder as example.com

If you need to add your .bit domain on another web hosting to do a redirect, i can do it for 1BTC on my webserver :p

All name_* commands have a minimum fee to limit spam. name_firstupdate has a big one to limit the rush.
The 0.01 minimum fee will not become a problem suddenly, so updating the namecoin client will be done when necessary and in advance.


I think too that the namecoins should not be lost. If they are lost, we will use smaller and smaller namecoins amounts, will need to decrease the fee limit more often, etc. Give them to miners, they will be happy and offer more NC for same amount of BTC.


It's not an easy update :p. I've seen discussions about that on the bitcoin forum, i don't know at what stage is all this.

khal what do you think about theymos' bitDNS proposal? Wouldn't that be a Namecoin killer if it were implemented or is it technically limited enough to justify the existence of this block chain?

Yes. It would be even easier if there was a slightly modified bitcoin client GUI, i.e. a basic namecoin client GUI with an extension to include the capability to handle the new name commands (minimal set);


and we could trade namecoins like bitcoins to boot.

I can begin a pool bounty in namecoin for this work if someone wants to name their price.

I set up a miner and successfully mined 13 blocks, but they take a long time to show up in my wallet. After about 5 of the blocks appeared, I registered 5 .bit names, and I can use and update them just fine.

However, since registering those names, the other 8 blocks I mined have not shown up in my wallet, and I have not mined another block successfully for nearly a two day period (when I was mining about one every two hours before.)

Any idea what has gone wrong, and how I can get this up and running again?  Thanks.

You're right, listtransactions shows me three orphans. I've done some searching here, but I can't find anything on how to either get them in the main block chain or get rid of them. Is there something I can do, or do I just have to wait?

Thanks grue!

In the beginning, there was the command line interface ....

I have some names registered but are no longer showing in a name_list query ... however, the names are visible in a name_scan... any ideas? old wallet?

Thanks.