I tried, initially, a silent fix contacting namecoin developers and key users more than a month ago, but I never got any answers back.
It seems you did not try very hard because none of the active Namecoiners heard of anything. Still, thanks for bringing it up.
We are looking into a fix that will not need a reorg. Maybe by ignoring bad name_ops until hard fork height or something.
Finally some publicity for Namecoin
