Squatters happen everywhere, who cares? There is nothing stopping websites from being developed on .bit
The .bit TLD is not associated with Namecoin! I'm not sure how many times I have to repeat myself.
You have been misled into believing that Namecoin is a coin that grants you a .bit domain, which is not the case.
You can register .bit domains in other Namespaces or register a completely new TLD, such as .talk in the talk/ Namespace.
You are not required to use d/ simply because some con artist tells you to.
The .bit TLD is proposed by a completely separate project known as the "DOT-BIT Project," which used Namecoin.
Claiming that Namecoin is the "DOT-BIT Project" is absurd and severely harms Namecoin's reputation.
The closer and more integrated JR and the Namecoin Devs get to integrating .bit into web browsers the more the trolls come out in deep fear! (The namecoin Core integration has come a LONG way the last 2 years)
Jeremy Rand is not a Namecoin developer! Namecoin hasn't even been developed since Vince announced it in this thread.
There are projects that use Namecoin, but it is critical that everyone understands that each of those projects is entirely independent of Namecoin.
Daniel Kraft occasionally merges from upstream Bitcoin, and that's all, purely maintainer work.
Your assertion that web browsers will incorporate the .bit TLD is incorrect and extremely dangerous. Web browsers integrate the Namespace rather than the TLD.
If a browser looked up the value first, rather than the Namespace, there would be complete chaos, with websites being hijacked in seconds.
There have been attempts to hard code the d/ Namespace into Tor Browser, but the Tor Project will never approve what Jeremy Rand desires. I will make certain that such a feature is never implemented in Tor Browser. It is Jeremy Rand's personal project that only serves his own interests, much of which are purely financial, charlatan, such as Daniel Kraft, who uses Namecoin to promote his for-profit companies with which he launders money in Malta.