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["Ben Bristow" <me AT benbristow.co.uk>]

.bit would be great for stores that support Bitcoin and other
decentralized P2P currencies. Also would be pretty good for file sharing
and general tech websites.

I give it a vote!

+1

- Ben

On Sat, 03 May 2014 19:03:57 +0100, Calum McAlinden  
<calum AT mcalinden.me.uk> wrote:

> Supporting .bit could attract some users to OpenNIC, and also provide
> additional benefits to current OpenNIC users wishing to resolve more
> alt TLDs.
>
> I understand that a benefit of Namecoin is its decentralised nature.
> This would be undermined if OpenNIC supported it by "bridging" DNS,
> and the Namecoin protocol, through a central tier 1 server.  However,
>
> - downloading 1.75 GB and running a client making constant use of the
> internet through p2p, is not an option for some. This could be due to
> the device being used, or poor internet connectivity.
> - Namecoin setup normally involves users manually installing and
> configuring dnsmasq locally to resolve .bit domains, which is out of
> the comfort zone for most.
>
> Could we have a vote on this? Or are people generally not interested,
> in which case I'll shut up? :)


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