The fork is due really soon.  

Some of you might be thinking about getting a namespace for yourself, or maybe trying to squat on one. I have had some discussions and questions asked privately, so I wanted to give you a tip of the right way to do it.

Namespaces are not yet transferable, though we hope to someday make this possible.  

Interestingly enough while namespaces can not be transferred, accounts in NEM can!  

Yes, NEM has an amazing little feature I haven't ever seen in any other platform, and one that isn't discussed much, but the way NEM's multisig architecture is set up, you can transfer entire accounts intact from third party to third party.

This is done by make the account a 1 of 1 signer and passing the power of the account to another person.  So for instance if I squat on the name "Alice" and later somebody wants to buy it from me, I convert it into a multisig account and then make the other person the signer.  They now have full control over the account and there isn't anything I can do about it.  This transfer can even be done with a neutral third party acting as an escrow signer.  

So my advice is if you are squatting is to put each namespace in its own account, at which point it can the be sold and transferred to others.  

The process is a lot longer and you would have lots of keys to back up than just buying them all on once account, but you have some security knowing they are transferable.