Quote from: theymos on June 22, 2011, 03:23:40 AM

This has been discussed many times before. It's possible, but some people are very opposed to the idea of "stuffing the block chain with garbage".

Here's an old DNS proposal using Bitcoin's general timestamping properties:
http://privwiki.dreamhosters.com/wiki/Bitcoin_DNS_System_Proposal
(This could be greatly improved.)

Ah, I think I now remember hearing these objections before regarding Namecoin. In my opinion the key would be to have a generic system, even more than worrying about the block chain baggage - you really don't want to start polluting the code base with for example NC specific code.

Incidentally this is what I probably like the most about Bitcoin - it exposed so much uncharted territory