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I am currently using Sedo.com for selling my domain names, but it only has paypal

I was wondering if you know or used a service like it but with cryptocurrencies

There's a "Marketplace (https://www.namecheap.com/domains/marketplace/buy-domains/)" section for buying & selling domains on "namecheap" (they also have BTCitcoin as its option).

Weren't there several "decentralised marketplaces" being developed last year to supposedly disrupt this service as well? Can't for the life of me recall a single name, but surely some must have some form of product or platform now. Google doesn't seem to show me any of them, except for some very small ones like Namealize (32 domains).

Also wonder whatever happened to Namecoin, which if I recall is tied to the .bit domain. My search also turned up Peername, which seems to suggest registering domains "on the blockchain". Anyone ever tried?

Very nice listed on that too

I saw a post on another forum stating that namesilo (https://www.namesilo.com/index.php) allows you to cash out in Bitcoin for selling on their platform, though the site seems like a pretty average mid-2000s design and I'm not completely sure of the legitimacy of the site. Bitcointalk's a good place to sell for sure, though, as I've been looking at places to sell domains, and most of them seem to either be automated marketplaces that only accept PayPal or the occasional forum post accepting Bitcoin or other crypto as payment for domains. Just make sure you're using escrow unless your buyer's sending money first so as to not be scammed, and you'll be fine. SFR10 linked the section to sell above.

It's horrible to deal with these domains with how you can't access them via a regular browser. It requires you to use a proxy to access them, which goes beyond that what a regular user is willing to do in order to browse a website.

The majority of the people don't need a decentralized domain because they either have nothing to hide or be afraid of, or they don't see anything of useful nature in it, and we can't really blame them for that.

Currently you can also register .eth domains, and I'm sure there are plenty of more decentralized domains that we (or at least I) don't know of. At least Ethereum provides a solid platform for easy and secure transfer of ownership.

Yeah, that's the trouble with a lot of these decentralised platforms. That they're simple too much of a hassle to access... Sort of the early issue of using Bitcoin (as in from your own client, signing and broadcasting txs) but people got over that fairly quickly. Reminds me of the early hassle of dialing up to ISPs and navigating gopher or telnet. We've stripped away the need to understand how it works under the hood and power to that but it does beg the question... Do we really need everything to be decentralised?

Again, a Bitcoin believer through and through, but blockchain isn't the missing piece to every puzzle.

Nah. I'm pretty content with how everything works nowadays with Bitcoin on my side. My only need is decentralized money, which is what I have right now.

I consider myself to be fairly demanding and well above what an average user of the internet looks like nowadays. If I can be satisfied with how things are right now, I'm sure that the average joe (which usually doesn't care about decentralization at all) is even more satisfied.

Ripple clearly demonstrates with their database products that you don't need a blockchain to get things done more efficiently. The only reason they label themselves as a blockchain party is to ride the blockchain hype, which is understandable. It's free marketing and investors seem to love raining millions on anything related to this industry.

The wheel has already been invented, it's Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto currencies. There is nothing more to gain here.

That reminds me of how companies with a stock listing changed their name to include blockchain for the sole purpose of driving share prices up, and the worst is that it did drive up the price significantly at first.

I'm glad that there are enough investors with common sense using that as an opportunity to dump the price back down to where it started. It surprises me that regulators haven't done anything yet to discourage these practices.

It's clear by now that most of the companies doing this haven't ever dipped their feet in the blockchain world. It's insider trading and market manipulation at the same time. Must be interesting enough for regulators to combat right?