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Alternate cryptocurrencies => Altcoin Discussion => Topic started by: bagazaga on December 30, 2016, 11:18:09 AM



Title: What do we need for namecoin to take off (or maybe emercoin)
Post by: bagazaga on December 30, 2016, 11:18:09 AM
Expecting, that general audience will suddenly install namecoin dns server to resolve .bit domains, they don't care is proved wrong and naive. After thinking a while, I figured out, that there is only one way for alternative DNS to become massively adopted. It must be supported by most ISPs. Usually, as far as I know they use BIND for their DNS servers. Easiest way to make them resolve .bit domain is to make top linux distros BIND resolve it off-the-shelf, by default, with default settings. So the shortest path would be to convince those, who responsible for major disto contents to ship everything necessary by default. Does anyone have an idea, where to start?


Title: Re: What do we need for namecoin to take off (or maybe emercoin)
Post by: PanneKopp on December 31, 2016, 01:14:25 AM
restart from beginning


Title: Re: What do we need for namecoin to take off (or maybe emercoin)
Post by: bagazaga on December 31, 2016, 02:02:04 PM
restart from beginning

The only way for namecoin to become default DNS is to make it available by default with linux distros, without any efforts. ISP's can make namecoin available to masses if it ever become available by default with linux distros, simply by not removing corresponding packages, when they set up their DNS servers. With further namecoin adoption it will eventually become recognized part of an internet and get into all major OSes default distros.


Title: Re: What do we need for namecoin to take off (or maybe emercoin)
Post by: StinkyLover on December 31, 2016, 04:24:40 PM
Wow. Bagholders don't ask for much, do they???