Already more than 800 domains, due to an anonymous crazy guy :p

We have reached 600 domain names :p

All name_* commands have a minimum fee to limit spam. name_firstupdate has a big one to limit the rush.
The 0.01 minimum fee will not become a problem suddenly, so updating the namecoin client will be done when necessary and in advance.


I think too that the namecoins should not be lost. If they are lost, we will use smaller and smaller namecoins amounts, will need to decrease the fee limit more often, etc. Give them to miners, they will be happy and offer more NC for same amount of BTC.


It's not an easy update :p. I've seen discussions about that on the bitcoin forum, i don't know at what stage is all this.

Say your .bit domain is example.bit
Say your existing website is example.com.
example.com has ip 192.0.32.10
www.example.com has ip 192.0.32.10
example.com has ns A.IANA-SERVERS.NET & B.IANA-SERVERS.NET

You have two options to configure your domain :
A. put the ip address of your webserver directly for "" (for eindomain.bit :p) and www (for www.eindomain.bit)
* set json-value: "{\"map\": {\"\": \"192.0.32.10\"}, {\"www\": \"192.0.32.10\"}}"
* add example.bit in the same interface where you added example.com
If your web hosting provider don't accept unknown TLDs (.bit for ex :p), you must use another provider

B. put the same nameservers used by your other domain
* set json-value: "{\"map\": {\"\": {\"ns\": [\"A.IANA-SERVERS.NET\", \"B.IANA-SERVERS.NET\"]}}}"
* add example.bit in the same interface where you added example.com
If you can only add a domain by registering it, you can't use this method.

Then :
* if you want a redirect, add an html or php file to redirect to example.com
* if you want to browse directly on example.bit, configure it to point to the same folder as example.com

If you need to add your .bit domain on another web hosting to do a redirect, i can do it for 1BTC on my webserver :p

This minimum can be changed if needed. Same applies to bitcoin : minimum fee will pass from 0.01BTC to 0.0005BTC.


That's a good question i asked : http://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=31

No planned patch for this feature ?

Like in the advanced search page, people can select forums to search on. It would be convenient to have the same option on the "Recent unread Topics" page.

"monitortx" could be really usefull for merchants who wait for payments to process orders. This works like a bank call to confirm a credit card transaction.

If this is the case, a call to "gettransaction" will be needed to check the desired number of confirmations :p

Namecoin is the software and the blockchain.
Dot-BIT is the DNS servers, tools, wiki resources and support forum.

If you donate here, it'll go to the namecoin software author (vince) who promised a least 30% to "other developers and promoters"*.

So, they are pretty much the same, except people are differents :p
I don't want to steal the bitDNS bounty neither, so, donate to vince who initiated all this (i'll track him with my whip to get some BTC :p).

Did you wait for 12 blocks after the name_new ?

When you reserve a name, other people don't know the domain name you reserved. This avoids another person to name_new the same domain as you 1 second after you.


12'000 blocks too, after that, your name_new has expired. Other people can also do name_new. The first one to do the name_firstupdate gets the domain.

Not listtractions, but listtransactions


forever-d > i'll be on irc soon if you need help

sipa, can you propose a pull request for that on my branch ?

Added ipv6 support !

Server is now usable with :
- ipv4 : 178.32.31.41
- ipv6 : 2001:41d0:2:a5d9::101

If you use the ipv6 as nameserver, let me now if it works or not :p

If windows, use the last version (updated yesterday) and :

Nearly impossible to say without trying. If you need a .bit hosting, send me a PM.


Registration fees (name_firstupdate) are lost. Their goal is to avoid a rush, but this is not perfect in my opinion.
There is a discussion about that here.

rand = short hex number returned by the name_new command. longhex is the long hex returned.

For json-value, you can follow this :
http://dot-bit.org/HowToRegisterAndConfigureBitDomains#How_to_configure_your_domain

Short and simple example (simply put the ip of your server instead) :
'{"map": {"": "10.0.0.1", "www": "10.0.0.1"}}'

Then, you must add rejuvepedia.bit on the configuration of your webserver (in apache if you have access directly, or on the web interface where you add your domains)

It's in the default builds :

name_scan limits to 500 results by default. Use :

You can find latest linux binaries of namecoin here. They include the patch to see generated coins still not mature.
We are still waiting for someone to build a recent windows version

[edit: thanks grue]

Here are some recent questions about the design of the project :

- Storing data in a DHT ?

- How to prevent rush on new TLD/namespace over time

- Change the expire time of a domain

- [SPEC] Domain name specification


ps : we are still waiting for a recent windows build from a generous compiler :p