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On January 18, 2025, 03:01 AM UTC, https://www.namecoin.org/ was accessible when tested on AS327975 in Chad.

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196.216.149.43
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<p><strong>Namecoin</strong> is an experimental open-source technology which improves decentralization, security, censorship resistance, privacy, and speed of certain components of the Internet infrastructure such as DNS and identities.</p>

<p>(For the technically minded, Namecoin is a key/value pair registration and transfer system based on the Bitcoin technology.)</p>

<p><em>Bitcoin frees money – Namecoin frees DNS, identities, and other technologies.</em></p>

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    <h2 id="what-can-namecoin-be-used-for">What can Namecoin be used for?</h2>

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      <li>Protect free-speech rights online by making the web more resistant to censorship.</li>
      <li>Human-meaningful Tor .onion domains.</li>
      <li>Decentralized TLS (HTTPS) certificate validation, backed by blockchain consensus.</li>
      <li>Access websites using the .bit top-level domain.</li>
      <li>Attach identity information such as GPG and OTR keys and email, Bitcoin, and Bitmessage addresses to an identity of your choice.</li>
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      <li>Securely record and transfer arbitrary names (keys).</li>
      <li>Attach a value (data) to the names (up to 520 bytes).</li>
      <li>Transact the digital currency namecoins (NMC).</li>
      <li>Like bitcoins, Namecoin names are difficult to censor or seize.</li>
      <li>Lookups do not generate network traffic (improves privacy).</li>
    </ul>

    <p><strong>Namecoin</strong> was the first fork of <a href="https://bitcoin.org">Bitcoin</a> and still is one of the most innovative “altcoins”.  It was first to implement <a href="https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/273/how-does-merged-mining-work">merged mining</a> and a <a href="/dot-bit/">decentralized DNS</a>.  <strong>Namecoin</strong> was also the first solution to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle">Zooko’s Triangle</a>, the long-standing problem of producing a naming system that is simultaneously secure, decentralized, and human-meaningful.</p>

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<h2 id="more-information">More Information</h2>

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  <li><a href="https://nameid.org">Namecoin Identities</a></li>
  <li><a href="/dot-bit/">.bit DNS</a></li>
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<h2 id="news">News</h2>

<p>(<a href="/feed.rss">RSS Feed</a>)</p>

<h3 id="namecoin-will-be-at-38c3-and-fosdem-2025"><a href="/2024/12/16/38c3-fosdem-2025.html">Namecoin will be at 38C3 and FOSDEM 2025</a></h3>

<p><strong><a href="/2024/12/16/38c3-fosdem-2025.html">2024-12-16</a></strong> We’re happy to announce that at least three Namecoin developers will be at <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/wiki/index.php/Main_Page">38C3 (the 38th Chaos Communication Congress)</a> in Hamburg, December 27-30. Additionally, at least two Namecoin developers will be at <a href="https://www.fosdem.org/2025/">FOSDEM 2025</a> in Brussels, February 1-2.</p>

<p><a href="/2024/12/16/38c3-fosdem-2025.html">Read more…</a></p>

<h3 id="namecoin-core-280-almost-released"><a href="/2024/12/15/namecoin-core-28.0-released.html">Namecoin Core 28.0 (Almost) Released</a></h3>

<p><strong><a href="/2024/12/15/namecoin-core-28.0-released.html">2024-12-15</a></strong> Namecoin Core 28.0 has been released on the <a href="/download/betas/#namecoin-core">Beta Downloads page</a>.</p>

<p><a href="/2024/12/15/namecoin-core-28.0-released.html">Read more…</a></p>

<h3 id="namecoins-sockstrace-receives-funding-from-nlnet-foundations-ngi0-core-fund"><a href="/2024/10/21/sockstrace-funding-nlnet-ngi0-core.html">Namecoin’s SocksTrace Receives Funding from NLnet Foundation’s NGI0 Core Fund</a></h3>

<p><strong><a href="/2024/10/21/sockstrace-funding-nlnet-ngi0-core.html">2024-10-21</a></strong> We’re happy to announce that Namecoin is <a href="https://nlnet.nl/news/2024/20241003-announcing-Core-call.html">receiving</a> additional funding from NLnet Foundation’s NGI0 Core (Next Generation Internet: Zero Core) Fund. If you’re unfamiliar with NLnet, you might want to read <a href="https://nlnet.nl/foundation/">about NLnet Foundation</a>, or just take a look at <a href="https://nlnet.nl/thema/index.html">the projects they’ve funded over the years</a> (you might see some familiar names).</p>

<p><a href="/2024/10/21/sockstrace-funding-nlnet-ngi0-core.html">Read more…</a></p>

<h3 id="tor-meeting-2024--gpn-22--monerokon-4-summary-updated"><a href="/2024/07/24/tor-2024-gpn-22-monerokon-4-summary.html">Tor Meeting 2024 / GPN 22 / MoneroKon 4 Summary (UPDATED)</a></h3>

<p><strong><a href="/2024/07/24/tor-2024-gpn-22-monerokon-4-summary.html">2024-07-24</a></strong> As was <a href="/2024/05/15/tor-2024-gpn-22-monerokon-4.html">previously announced</a>, Rose, yanmaani, Hugo, and I (Jeremy Rand) represented Namecoin at three conferences in Europe. This was an excellent series of events for a number of reasons, not least the fact that this is the first time we’ve ever had 4 Namecoin developers attending a single conference (our previous record was 3 developers, at 37C3). Expanding our team size has been a priority for a while, and it’s great to see that this is starting to pay off. Of course, there were major substantive benefits as well. As usual for conferences that Namecoiners attend, we engaged in a large number of conversations with other attendees.  Also as usual, we won’t be publicly disclosing the content of those conversations, because I want people to be able to talk to us at conferences without worrying that off-the-cuff comments will be broadcast to the public.</p>

<p><a href="/2024/07/24/tor-2024-gpn-22-monerokon-4-summary.html">Read more…</a></p>

<h3 id="reducing-size-with-concise-binary-object-representation-cbor-and-name-gifting"><a href="/2024/05/17/cbor-and-gifting-names.html">Reducing Size With Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) and Name Gifting</a></h3>

<p><strong><a href="/2024/05/17/cbor-and-gifting-names.html">2024-05-17</a></strong> Several new Electrum-NMC enhancements have been added.</p>

<p><a href="/2024/05/17/cbor-and-gifting-names.html">Read more…</a></p>

<h3 id="namecoin-will-be-at-tor-meeting-2024-gpn-22-and-monerokon-4"><a href="/2024/05/15/tor-2024-gpn-22-monerokon-4.html">Namecoin will be at Tor Meeting 2024, GPN 22, and MoneroKon 4</a></h3>

<p><strong><a href="/2024/05/15/tor-2024-gpn-22-monerokon-4.html">2024-05-15</a></strong> We’re happy to announce that Namecoin developers will be at multiple conferences over the next month:</p>

<p><a href="/2024/05/15/tor-2024-gpn-22-monerokon-4.html">Read more…</a></p>

<h3 id="electrum-nmc-apparmor-static-analysis-and-input-validation--ncdns-unix-sockets"><a href="/2024/05/11/apparmor-static-analysis-input-validation-ncdns-unix-sockets.html">Electrum-NMC AppArmor, Static Analysis, and Input Validation + ncdns Unix Sockets</a></h3>

<p><strong><a href="/2024/05/11/apparmor-static-analysis-input-validation-ncdns-unix-sockets.html">2024-05-11</a></strong> Several new Electrum-NMC &amp; ncdns enhancements have been added.</p>

<p><a href="/2024/05/11/apparmor-static-analysis-input-validation-ncdns-unix-sockets.html">Read more…</a></p>

<h3 id="rust-electrum-client-for-namecoin"><a href="/2024/05/10/rust-electrum-client-for-namecoin.html">rust-electrum-client for Namecoin</a></h3>

<p><strong><a href="/2024/05/10/rust-electrum-client-for-namecoin.html">2024-05-10</a></strong> Recently, I needed to use <a href="https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/rust-electrum-client">rust-electrum-client</a> with Namecoin. I was kind of worried that this would be nontrivial, but as it turned out, I was able to get it working in just a few days of hacking, despite this being my first foray into Rust.</p>

<p><a href="/2024/05/10/rust-electrum-client-for-namecoin.html">Read more…</a></p>

<h3 id="video-slides-and-paper-from-namecoin-at-gcer-2022"><a href="/2024/05/09/gcer-2022-video.html">Video, Slides, and Paper from Namecoin at GCER 2022</a></h3>

<p><strong><a href="/2024/05/09/gcer-2022-video.html">2024-05-09</a></strong> This post is a bit late, but I represented Namecoin at the 2022 Global Conference on Educational Robotics.  Although GCER doesn’t produce official recordings of their talks, I was able to obtain an amateur recording of my talk from an audience member.  I’ve also posted my slides, as well as my paper from the conference proceedings.</p>

<p><a href="/2024/05/09/gcer-2022-video.html">Read more…</a></p>

<h3 id="enhancements-to-ipfs--ipns-a-closer-look-at-the-latest-updates"><a href="/2024/05/01/ipfs-value-binary-encoding.html">Enhancements to IPFS &amp; IPNS: A Closer Look at the Latest Updates</a></h3>

<p><strong><a href="/2024/05/01/ipfs-value-binary-encoding.html">2024-05-01</a></strong> Several new Electrum-NMC enhancements have been added.</p>

<p><a href="/2024/05/01/ipfs-value-binary-encoding.html">Read more…</a></p>

<p><a href="/news/">Earlier news</a></p>

<p>For the latest news go to the <a href="https://forum.namecoin.org/">Namecoin forum</a> or check out <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/namecoin">r/namecoin</a>.</p>

<p>Official anouncements will also be made on <a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=236340.0">this BitcoinTalk thread</a>.</p>

<h2 id="donate">Donate</h2>
<p>Help keep us <strong>strong</strong>.  <a href="/donate/">You can donate to the Namecoin project here.</a></p>

<h2 id="participate">Participate</h2>
<p>With <strong>Namecoin</strong> you can make a difference.  We need your <strong>help to free information</strong>, especially in documentation, marketing, and <a href="https://github.com/namecoin/">coding</a>.  You are welcome at the <a href="https://forum.namecoin.org/">forum</a>.  There may be <a href="https://forum.namecoin.org/viewforum.php?f=18">bounties</a>, too.</p>

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