But who can see it?  That's what I don't have clear.

I absolutely hate verisign and I find the domain renewal scam verisign runs very annoying.

I recently had a domain I was running for 10 years taken by some European outfit because I was deep into a well paid programming project.  Laser focus.  Forgot about it.  Got burned.

When I own a namecoin .bit domain, do I own it forever?