I've just added a web-based Namecoin whois tool and a few others:

* Web-based whois tool -- http://www.namecoin.us/tools/whois-lookup.php
* .bit whois server -- http://whois.namecoin.us/
* Domain price calculator -- http://www.namecoin.us/tools/domain-cost.php
* Block generation estimator -- http://www.namecoin.us/tools/generate-block.php

Work is finished on a new namecoin projected called NamecoinUs over at http://www.namecoin.us/

It bridges the namecoin registrations to map .bit domains to the "old" Internet DNS system to make access easy/easier for those who don't have .bit DNS resolution installed or don't know how to do it.

There's two basic concepts:
* Direct mapping: http://example.bit => http://example.namecoin.us
* In-line proxying: http://example.bit => http://example.bit.namecoin.us

Some Features:
* Works with both A and NS Namecoin records. (With NS records it mirrors the authoritative A result.)
* Synchronized with the Namecoin network every 5 minutes.
* Inline proxying when you use "http://example.bit.namecoin.us" (notice the extra ".bit") (Experimental)
* Completely distributed DNS network, multiple data centers.
* All tier 1 bandwidth providers, multi-gigabit connectivity.
* Records served from ram, super fast clusters.

Namecoin stuff:
* Mining time calculator: http://www.namecoin.us/tools/generate-block.php
* Namecoin domain value syntax checker: http://www.namecoin.us/tools/syntax-checker.php

Whois Server:
* Public WHOIS server at http://whois.namecoin.us/, works with any normal whois client:
* $ whois -h whois.namecoin.us example.bit
* AJAX version for hotlinking available, ex: http://whois.namecoin.us/yourdomain.bit
* Web-friendly version: http://www.namecoin.us/tools/whois-lookup.php

What's New:
* Pools page with live stats: http://www.namecoin.us/pools.php
* Namecoin expired domains tracker: http://www.namecoin.us/expires.php

More information is in the FAQ.

Coming someday:
* Statistics with graphs and stuff
* Opt-in/out [if this is wanted?] for domain owners
* Suggestions?

There are six nameservers you can use: ns0.namecoin.us, ns1.namecoin.us, ns2.namecoin.us, ns3.namecoin.us, ns4.namecoin.us, ns5.namecoin.us

Any and all feedback/comments/suggestions/requests/bugs/spare namecoins welcome! Big thanks to everyone in #namecoin chat who has helped with all the random questions too

Giving this a shot now on the Namecoin.us project, will let you know how it goes!

Nice start, looking forward to the new features!

Very cool to see this progress! Great to know that it'll be tamer in the future -- I think that's one of the keys to making browser-based mining viable.

Downloading to test now!

I think he may have been referencing your PHP code that interacts with bitcoind and pushpool, does the user management, etc. Since that's the one chunk every pool is developing on their own, it'd be great to see someone release the "front half" since pushpool (the "back half") was open sourced.

Like Eleuthria mentioned, you get paid based on shares.

But it's interesting to note -- the rate my miner displays is much higher than what the BTC Guild site reports. This hasn't been the case with other pools I've used in the past though.

Ha! Love it :-D

That's exactly what I needed to know, noted!

The CUDA miner should always show 0% or 1% cpu usage since it's, well, using your graphics card :-)

Give the Phoenix miner a try. It has yielded the best results for me out of all the miners. Also, have you overclocked your 460 yet? Paste your GPU-Z here if ya have, would love to see what yours is running stable at!

Hm, if you're only getting 8.5 Mhash my guess is that the GPU mining isn't kicking in and it's just using your CPU. Which miner are you using?

I get 65-70 Mhash on my overclocked 460.

This was happening a bit yesterday but has cleared up for me!

Let me know how this goes, I'm getting in to the exact same project of trying to figure out just how far I can push one machine. There's a few mbs out there that have 7 PCI slots (with some downsides, and you need an ATX-XL chassis) which got me wondering if I could stick 7 single slot graphics cards in there like the GTX 580s.

You're doing this on Windows? Make sure the NVIDIA CUDA drivers are installed and the GTX 460 drivers, that should be all you need!

Nice! Will be great for checking in on the stats quickly while not at home ^.^

Throwing 100Mh/s your way, congrats on hitting 100 gH/sec!