Would like to make something very clear to all those who are interested or using Namecoin.

Namecoin has nothing to do with .bit tld or the d/ namespace nor it is developed by Jeremy Rand or Domob, they are more like maintainers than developers.

With Namecoin you can create almost an infinite number of Namespaces. The number of Namespaces you can create and the key/value pairs are only limited by the number of available namecoins which is capped at 21 million just as Bitcoin.

I did an extensive research into Namecoin in the past 8+ years and I know for a fact that namecoin.org is not in any way official representation of Namecoin. The Namecoin genesis block was mined days prior the first "domain" is registered that used the .bit tld. I actually had the honor to talk with the miner himself who mined all the "domains" in the d/ namespace. He told me the entire story how vinced contacted him for help.

The first "domains" are mined as a proof-of-concept, after which there where some "reservations" for the DOT-BIT Project that had the dot-bit.org domain as they main website.
Early Namecoin adopters started a registry at register.dot-bit.org where they sold .bit "domains" for 1 or 2 Bitcoin.

Some tried to auction namecoin domains here on BitcoinTalk which wasn't received well by the community:


Squatting is always was a big problem and very unfortunately Namecoin isn't except.

I understand well Jeremy Rand and Daniel Kraft thought I oppose namecoin.org completely because it is undeniably managed by just one persona, so as the rest of Namecoin's public social media profiles which I interpret as a squatting and hijacking the entire Namecoin project.

Undeniably, since Jeremy Rand come around and obtained control over those resources and domain names, Namecoin price is dropped from $10-$13 and for many years is unable to recover. I have seen Jeremy Rand multiple times attacking people who forking Namecoin and claiming that those forks are "hostile" and contains "malware", while he himself forked Namecoin as well.

Today, Namecoin development is nothing more than merging from upstream Bitcoin, and this was the case for the last 11 years.

However, I noticed that very recently between two auxpow merges from upstream Jeremy Rand and Daniel Kraft hard coded Namespaces into Namecoin Core which is completely egregious. As I stated initially, Namecoin has nothing to do with .bit domains and certainly isn't limited for the d/ namespace. Anyone who claims otherwise is hostile and a liar.

This is an open source project, just as Bitcoin, neither any of you or Daniel Kraft nor Jeremy Rand are owners of it, and certainly none of you are in the position to claim that forks are "hostile" and may contain "malware".

Namecoin is much bigger than any of you can imagine and it can have a bright future if this disgusting behavior that is shown by either those who controlling the repository on GitHub or by those whom are posting here non-sense claims about other Namecoin users.

BayAreaCoins for many years helping Namecoin by providing a stable exchange where users can easily, quickly and anonymously can obtain Namecoin for they Bitcoin or other coins. Any critic regarding him is completely absurd and unacceptable.

To the other shenanigan who spamming this topic, I strongly recommend you find something else to play with. You're a complete nobody who never contributed a single line of code (not even proposed anything positive in an acceptable manner).

Hopefully neither Daniel Kraft nor Jeremy Rand takes this as an insult, I just wanted to make it clear that they do not control in any way Namecoin and may they think that they are protecting Namecoin from this shenanigan, but that is fundamentally flawed since they themselves contribute to the complete centralization of Namecoin which is not what we want. May they should consider to completely abandon the project especially after the recent hard coding of d/ dd/ id/ and idd/ namespaces into an open source software that hasn't seen any restrictions for the past 11 years especially not regarding Namespaces.