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A comment on Transitioning the web to Namecoin by addressing name-squatters.

Re:Transitioning the web to Namecoin by addressing name-squa... by gambler on Saturday December 21, 2013 @10:56PM (#6949268)
I don't see a good explanation of how Namecoin works and how exactly it fixes DNS issues. (The biggest one is squatters. I would rank centralization as #2.) Is there a quality document free from marketing hype that describes that?
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Re:Transitioning the web to Namecoin by addressing name-squa... by itistoday2 on Saturday December 21, 2013 @11:01PM (#6949285)
I don't see a good explanation of how this works and how it fixes DNS issues.

How this particular proposal works was outlined in the thread. It assumes that the reader knows enough about how Namecoin and DNS work for it to be obvious how an implementation would be carried out.

Re: "how it fixes DNS issues", you might find this document interesting (about a Namecoin-based DNS system called DNSNMC):

http://okturtles.com/other/dnsnmc_okturtles_overview.pdf

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