Its actually sad that Namecoin isn't listed on any tier 1 exchanges now. Almost 10 years old. Merged mined with bitcoin. Actively developed.
Namecoin will be around 10 years from now as well. Most other coins and projects won't. Lindy.
We need to start selling namecoin domains. I happen to own a pair of those. One is called "bebenda.zunda" while another one is a domain I wanna sell to synoptic bureau called "weather.lalala". I think if we get people to stir some noise around domain thing which is unique to namecoin, we will be rewarded by attention from crypto community. Disclaimer: Im not selling bebenda.zunda for less than 6 btc.