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Re:Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS D... by Kequc on Thursday April 25, 2013 @12:25PM (#5608104)
Forgive my ignorance, but how did they secure the .bit TLD in the first place? Is this part of the whole slew of new TLDs that are coming out? They must have had a benefactor to make this happen.

Er no it doesn't even seem to be on the list. http://www.newtlds.com/applications

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Re:Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS D... by AnthonyMouse on Thursday April 25, 2013 @02:58PM (#5609162)
Namecoin isn't ICANN. You install the software and whenever your machine does a lookup for the .bit TLD it uses their lookup system instead of sending it to the DNS resolver.
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