Namecoin @ Facebook reached 500+ Likes:

https://www.facebook.com/Namecoin.NMC

Support and Like !

That's the exact raison d'être for my website dotbit.me - to make the whole process as easy as possible.

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Coinnext added Namecoin
You can now trade NMC/BTC on https://coinnext.com/trade/NMC/BTC

Which name are you interested in?  You can try looking it up in the blockchain, some squatters put contact info like an email or Bitmessage address there.  I can well imagine that most squatters are ultimately interested in the success of Namecoin and will support you if you honestly want to set up a website at some of their names (and will sell you the name relatively cheaply or even give for free).

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[ANN] Namecoin v0.3.74rc1 Windows Binary - please test

This needs your help testing, especially all the fancy new (RPC) functions.

http://namecoin.info/files/Namecoin_v0.3.74rc1_setup.exe
sha256: cbb4629cf2669c6e6ff89b1822838481fd95edabb6941542ddb130df84e14e76

MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR DATA DIRECTORY BEFORE RUNNING! This version will make changes to blkindex.dat that are NOT backward compatible.
Of course you should always have encrypted up to date backups of your wallet.dat file!

Now with installer!  

Compiled with a heartbleed safe OpenSSL library.

Special thanks goes out to Domob!

v0.3.74
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* allow for atomic name transactions via rpc commands (Domob)
* new rpc commands: name_pending, getchains (Domob)
* Simplified blkindex.dat for smaller file size and faster startup - not backward compatible ("remove auxpow", Domob) - IT WILL TAKE A WHILE FOR THE REWRITE ON THE FIRST START
* Implement name_update in createrawtransaction (Domob)
* More detailed JSON outputs for decoderawtransaction and getrawtransaction (Domob)
* Async RPC calls (Domob: ported from Huntercoin)
* Add toaddress argument to name_firstupdate (Domob)
* fixed memory leaks (Domob)
* listsinceblock (Olgasanko)
* Several performance optimizations (Domob)
* valgrind script (Domob)
* Small updates and fixes, code cleanup

v0.3.73-rc1 (never officially released)
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* Modified testnet difficulty calculation (Khal)
* GUI: ID-tab (Domob)
* improve name_filter speed (Khal)
* Small updates and fixes

No zip?

Heyr/bitcoin, would you be interested in crowdfunding the rights to .bit from ICANN ($185k + maybe another $100k to become accredited), then set their master servers to read off of the namecoin block chain? Also, come get some SOUL colored coins - post your coinprism address in the comments.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/268vuq/hey_rbitcoin_would_you_be_interested_in/

I might get around building something like onename.io as opensource, because I need a blockchain based auth system for people to use. Systems like these could really push namecoin's use. Onename.io claiming that they are "decentral" while doing this as closed source is kinda pointless. But the webinterface I think shows how the future might look like. Building the Twitter/Github/.. API's takes time though. But in these case reliance on a Trusted third party is okay. For ".bit" it's not, because the request takes place continuously.

To get around the squatting, one will need a good auction system, which is hard to do. Actually for the Internet this is broken, too. Transfering from one registrar to another is often impossible, and all these registrars do is take a lot of money for administering a database entry (+censorship for free!). There is a protocol (RFC3731) which in theory handles domain transfers, but nobody implements it. Actually even the guys who've written the protocol don't implement it. If anyone is interested in all of this please let me know.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3731

He needs to install intermediate ssl certificates

many thanks for this work. I will have to look into this further. Combining namecoin with OAuth is really what I need. I think part of the issue is the work required by users to a) acquire namecoins b) running namecoind. I'm working on a) and hope to make this much easier soon. If the whole process would be seamless more people might be interested. I think currently the ID part is much more useful than the domain part.

Is there some code for an explorer, like http://explorer.namecoin.info/ somewhere? I currently don't have the time to write such a webinterface, but pulling together stuff from Bitcoin should be sufficient. It would be nice to be able to explorer the blockchain after registration, see when names were registered, etc.