Namecoin in the news

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Namecoin in the news

Contents 1 2012-05 2 2012-04 3 2012-01 4 2011-09 5 2011-08 6 2011-07 7 2011-06 8 2011-05 9 2011-04

2012-05

• Title: OpenNIC & Dot-Bit (Namecoin) – Domains Not Controlled by ICANN
  • Date: May 19th, 2012
  • URL: http://technologyinsanity.com/internet/opennic-dot-bit-namecoin-domains-not-controlled-by-icann/
  • Publication: http://technologyinsanity.com
  • Author: ?
  • Quote: "With Namecoin, once you register a domain, no one can take it away from you. You own it, plain and simple."

• Title: Началась регистрация бесплатных доменов .pirate
  • Date: 16 May 2012
  • URL: http://www.xakep.ru/post/58702/
  • Publication: http://www.xakep.ru
  • Author: -
  • Quote: "Несмотря на запрет, в интернете действует десяток альтернативных DNS, в том числе инновационная NameCoin P2P DNS, которая не управляется никакой организацией, а вместо этого копия базы данных хранится у каждого пользователя (узла сети). "

• Title: dot-bit Activity Statistics
  • Date: 04 May 2012
  • URL: http://www.bitcoinforum.com/tecnical-analisis-trading-discussion/dot-bit-activity-statistics/msg536/#msg536
  • Publication: bitcoin forum http://www.bitcoinforum.com/
  • Author: dodoking
  • Quote: "En outre, « pourquoi ne pas avoir abordé du tout certaines solutions alternatives proposées comme Namecoin ou CoDoNS ? Namecoin d’ailleurs propose une solution à l’unicité sans passer par des registres »."

2012-04

• Title: Réactions et débats autour du projet ODDNS
  • Date: 13 April 2012
  • URL: http://www.pcinpact.com/news/70206-oddns-bortzmeyer-questions-explications.htm
  • Publication: PC INpact http://www.pcinpact.com/
  • Author: Vincent Hermann
  • Quote: "En outre, « pourquoi ne pas avoir abordé du tout certaines solutions alternatives proposées comme Namecoin ou CoDoNS ? Namecoin d’ailleurs propose une solution à l’unicité sans passer par des registres »."

2012-01

• Title: Bitcoin online currency gets new job in web security
  • Date: 17 January 2012
  • URL: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328476.500-bitcoin-online-currency-gets-new-job-in-web-security.html
  • Publication: New Scientist http://www.newscientist.com/
  • Author: Jacob Aron
  • Quote: "Another system, Namecoin, could be used to circumvent internet censorship. Launched last year, it uses modified Bitcoin software to provide decentralised domain names for websites"

2011-09

• Title: NameCoin and BitCoin, keys to web anonymity
  • Date: 2011-09-01
  • URL: http://www.intelligenceonline.com/corporate-intelligence/terabytes/2011/09/01/namecoin-and-bitcoin-keys-to-web-anonymity,92490555-ART (Paid Access Only)
  • Publication: Intelligence Online, http://www.intelligenceonline.com/
  • Author: Intelligence Online
  • Quote: "NameCoin wants to establish a decentralised system of domain names to thwart censorship efforts.(...)"

2011-08

2011-07

• Title: Ruxum: Wall Street Level Security Comes To Bitcoin With New Exchange
  • Date: 2011-07-18
  • URL: http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/18/ruxum-wall-street-level-security-comes-to-bitcoin-with-new-exchange/
  • Publication: TechCrunch, http://techcrunch.com/
  • Author: Rip Empson, http://techcrunch.com/author/rip-empson/
  • Quote: "Namecoin, for those unfamiliar, is a fork of the Bitcoin project, which uses the P2P network to, instead, build a decentralized domain name system that is less vulnerable to downages."

2011-06

• Title: Bitcoin: censorship-resistant currency and domain name system to the people
  • Date: 2011-06-20
  • URL: http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/mediawiki/images/6/64/Barok.bitcoin.pdf
  • Publication: Dissertation, Piet Zwart Institute, Hogeschool Rotterdam
  • Author: Dusan Barok
  • Quote: "... in April 2011, the first version of Namecoin was released (Vinced, 2011). The software uses a new blockchain, separate from the main Bitcoin chain, and introduces a fully functional de-centralised DNS system ... "

• Title: The clock is ticking on Bitcoin
  • Date: 2011-06-17
  • URL: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/17/the-clock-is-ticking-on-bitcoin/
  • Publication: CNNMoney, http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/
  • Author: Daniel Roberts
  • Quote: "Now there are even other Bitcoin-like currencies, such as Namecoins, which are bought with Bitcoins and used to pay for domain name hosting."

• Title: Wikileaks endorses Bitcoin and Namecoin
  • URL: http://www.tribbleagency.com/?p=8072
  • Date: 2011-06-09
  • Publication:
  • Author:
  • Quote: "Wikileaks has endorsed Bitcoin and Namecoin about 5 minutes ago via their twitter post."

• Title: The Rise of Namecoin
  • URL: http://thebitcoinsun.com/post/2011/06/07/The-Rise-of-Namecoin
  • Date: 2011-06-07
  • Publication: The Bitcoin Sun, http://thebitcoinsun.com/
  • Author: Garrett
  • Quote: "For only having been in active development for a month and a half, namecoin is showing impressive progress. Much like bitcoin it is a potentially paradigm altering technology, though there is still quite a bit of work to do. According the the dot-bit.org wiki, the namecoin software is still only halfway done, notably missing a GUI. A DNS proxy plugin for browsers and tools to build your own dns servers that resolve .bit domains are what come next, though namecoin.us may help out quite a bit by releasing their code into the public domain."

2011-05

• Title: Technological Jailbreak: Bitcoin to Namecoin
  • Date: 2011-05-28
  • URL: http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/technological-jailbreak-bitcoin-to-namecoin
  • Publication: Bitcoin Weekly, http://bitcoinweekly.com/
  • Author: kiba
  • Quote: "Whatever the historical evolution will be in the future, Namecoin is, in historical term, an unforeseen innovation that happened within a short span of time of Bitcoin's invention. It is one of the first technological jailbreak for Bitcoin technology, and it is unlikely to be the last."

• Title: Namecoin: децентрализирана и защитена DNS, бзирана на P2P
  • Date: 2011-05-27
  • URL: http://www.download.bg/index.php?cls=news&mtd=single&id=589173
  • Publication: Download.BG
  • Author:
  • Quote: (translated): "The new DNS-system Namecoin is based on the existing system of the encrypted electronic currency Bitcoin"

• Title: eG8 and Internet Control Points
  • URL: http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2011/05/decentralising-the-web/index.htm
  • Date: 2011-05-27
  • Publication: Computerworld UK
  • Author: Simon Phipps, http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/authors/#authorId88
  • Quote" "This project, based on the distributed online currency system Bitcoin, aims to implement a secure DNS that has no points of control. We need this sort of distributed infrastructure so that the control points simply aren't there to be abused."
  • Quote: "While political action is good to counter this, the practical step of removing the control points is also good. So, welcome NameCoin, I'm keen to give you a try."

2011-04

• Title: [announce] Namecoin - a distributed naming system based on Bitcoin
  • Date: 2011-04-18, 02:52:59
  • URL: http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=6017.0
  • Publication:
  • Author: vinced
  • Quote: "Namecoin is a naming system based on bitcoin with a few modifications. It is inspired by the bitdns discussion and recent failures of the DNS.
  • Quote: "Initially, two name spaces are defined - DNS and personal. The DNS name space is targetted towards a new distributed TLD, possibly .bit."