[lug] Anyone interested in .bit domain names?

[Davide Del Vento]

Interesting. Two questions I didn't find answered in the wiki:
1) Does Google crawl them?
2) once you have the namecoind in background, can you use them as any
other domain (e.g. ssh'ing, browsing, etc)?

I guess 2) depends on the OS, and I'm mostly interested in Linux, but
people may be interested in other OSes too.

Thanks!
Davide

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:10, Sean Reifschneider <jafo at tummy.com> wrote:
> I'm kind of excited about the .bit TLD, which is fairly experimental right
> now (meaning you can't just look up names in .bit without a name server
> that supports it), so for example at the moment to look up "example.bit"
> you either need a name server that supports it or you can look up
> "example.namecoin.us" (which mirrors .bit into .namecoin.us).
>
> I'm excited about it because it promises to be a  domain without a central
> registration authority.  It is secured through a peer to peer network based
> on the same ideas behind bitcoin, but instead of bitcoins you use
> namecoins.  It currently costs around 4 namecoins to register a domain.
>
> I have some spare namecoins, if anyone would like a .bit domain let me know
> and I'll give some to you.  You will need to download the "namecoin"
> software, run "namecoind" in the background, and then run "namecoind
> getaddress" and send that address to me.  Remember to do "reply to sender"
> rather than "reply to list" if you are just sending me your address
> (discussion should go to the list, even if it contains an address, the
> address is not private).
>
> More information:
>
>   http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page
>
> Sean
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