Quote from: cyberterrorist on December 06, 2022, 11:29:49 PM

the value "verify 2022-04-16 9:05:00 CET"

This verification was created on-chain on my request according to section Verifying ownership, because an offer of $ 750k USD was made over a broker in one of the Discord channels at this time. The offer was declined btw. Tracing the transaction chains doesn't necessarily prove the legal ownership, as the owner of the assigned cryptographic token may also act as registrar on behalf of a third party. No one would call a registrar a squatter btw. Claiming the Handshake name also doesn't mean automatically, that Daniel took something from the Handshake airdrop (what he didn't). He was responsible for the claim as he maintains the DNS settings of the website namecoin.org, even though J.R. uses that domain for his personal blog, at best with a few guest posts. It should be noted that all these positions mentioned in the team section are of course purely fantasy positions, as Namecoin is a pure community project and not backed by any company or legal entity. This should be considered as a kinda nice and "epic" relic of the pioneers of Namecoin who were simply proud of their project.

Regardless, I have to mention that Daniel Kraft aka domob is for sure one of the most trusted and most competent people in the Namecoin project, and he always tries to keep out of any fights in a very diplomatic way. Even in case he put the domain d/bitcoin up for sale, which is the first ever registered blockchain domain ever, he definitely would deserve the proceeds. Independent from the fact, that any domain holders who invested in Namecoin NFTs deserve their profit. In fact, it is essential for the Namecoin ecosystem that the big profits are not made through Namecoin as a cryptocurrency, but through its NFTs, which are clearly the oldest in the crypto universe. Also I consider it an advantage that the trading of NFTs takes place in Ethereum. Even though atomic trades are clearly preferable within the Namecoin ecosystem and are clearly the safest way to trade, these trades would lack liquidity on exchanges. Also it would have massive impact on the price chart of NMC. But the lower the prices for domain registration and management, the more attractive the project for the Namecoin community, especially domain holders. I'm not a fan of some contributors to the GitHub repository, to put it very politely and as everyone already knows, but the statement that the classification of the d/ prefix as the default domain record would have been done for financial interests seems a little bit constructed.