Quote from: drrussellshane on July 12, 2011, 04:09:35 AM

Anyone wanna sell me a few namecoins for BTC?

There's a BTC/NMC exchange: https://exchange.bitparking.com/main

Quote from: smoothie on July 12, 2011, 06:40:29 AM

You are incorrect to say that Renewal costs will go to $0. It is more like it will approach 0 NMC.

0.01 NMC in 6 to 8 months might be worth $7.50.

You are right, I expressed myself wrong. What I meant to say was that renewal doesn't have a network fee like name_firstupdate, it only has a regular transaction fee (which could be $0 if you modify the client and a miner is willing to include that transaction in a block for free).

Quote from: ctoon6 on July 12, 2011, 08:59:24 AM

not only that but namecoins are in fact destroyed from circulation when domains are claimed.

Why is that a problem?

Quote from: ctoon6 on July 12, 2011, 08:59:24 AM

both ICANN and NMC would have to coexist. so the .bit domain would never be anything more than a hobby domain.

It is not a requirement for .bit to completely replace ICANN for it to be successful, just like Bitcoin is not required to replace all other currencies to be considered a success. Personally I consider both already a success. It may or may not become bigger than openNIC, .me, .info, or even .net and .com, but who cares? The point is it already has value to some people, so it's not a problem that it can't replace ICANN completely (I believe it can though).

Quote from: ctoon6 on July 12, 2011, 08:59:24 AM

edit: pile all of that on top of the moderately complicated nongui they have. no average sane person will pop open a daemon and type in commands to buy a twinkie and the chair they sit their fat ass on.

WINDOWS INTEGRATION or lack of ultimately destroys any chance it ever had. the best use for namecoins is so botnets can operate even more decentralized than they already are.

Kind of a retarded argument because user-friendliness is a maturity issue, not a design issue. Also it is already way easier to browse .bit domains than you think it is. See here, here and here for easy solutions.

Quote from: theymos on July 12, 2011, 09:12:17 AM

- Namecoin fixes the cost of registration according to a formula for a long period of time. Price fixing is always a bad idea.
- When the price fixing ends, generators will be able to generate all of the good domain names at almost no cost. (This is better than the ICANN DNS, but it should be avoided if it can be.)
- Domain registration will probably be too cheap. Miners don't care about how cheaply domain squatters can register domains.

Those are not issues that make Namecoin broken, only less than optimal. I don't see what's the big issue with squatting anyway. If people are willing to pay a high price for a domain then what's the problem? And if they are not willing then squatting is unprofitable so there'll be no motive to do it.

Quote from: theymos on July 12, 2011, 09:12:17 AM

- Generators will intercept registration transactions and register the domains themselves, holding them hostage to get more money.

This is prevented by the name_new transaction which come before name_firstupdate: http://dot-bit.org/FAQ#Why_is_there_a_separate_name_new_step.3F