user1878: I like the concept of using a key/value store that is separate from the Bitcoin chain (preventing bloat), but utilizing the Bitcoin hashpower for security.

What are the dominant issues working against Namecoin today?
What can be done to correct those issues?
If you were to reboot the Namecoin project, what changes or improvements would you make?


user257: Namecoin has a bunch of issues, e.g. it is missing several improvements that Bitcoin got. 
The real problem is that nobody has found a way to use it (general data storage) in a way that many people considered useful.
On http://namecoin.info and in the wiki you can find plenty of suggestions for use cases. If you can find one and implement it and it takes off than Namecoin might gain strength as a whole, too. 
My latest idea: selling links (no external communication necessary: you pay and receive back a name containing a message encrypted with the public key of the address you payed from)
As many of the other use cases it would be mostly useful for illegal stuff, that's why I am hesitant to go for it.

user4690: Namecoin is great but has a couple of problems:

they are too many too complicated ideas around and this confuses and scares people
It needs to make simple and good some basic issues:

trading namecoins
registering .bit domains
simple support of .bit domains
/ Finish. That's all.

to reduce registration fees in namecoins was the biggest mistake because created surplus of namecoins and made them too cheap what let the people beleave they are valueless
How to fix this:

increase registration fee at least to double
increase 4 times the destroyed namecoins by registration


To restart the chain or to change the block reward inflationary would kill namecoin because nobody would trust any more this system.

user558: First, NMC is not worthless, it have a value and is traded on bitparking ( https://exchange.bitparking.com/main )  and btc-e ( https://btc-e.com/exchange ), with decent daily trading volume; people saying nmc is worthless are just people wanting to attract you to other altchains( most of them being scams imo ) .
Second, namecoin is an opensource network, it cant really die as long as people use it.
 Also, namecoin is the oldest and most serious alternative coin ( altchain ) to bitcoin.
 NMC price have gone down with merged mining ( increased supply ), but merged mining also made namecoin very secure and long lasting.
 As long as someone will maintain the software ( https://github.com/namecoin/namecoin ) namecoin will rock as the oldest and best altchain.
Real issues are :

possibility to store small files in the blockchain, could lead to increased blockchain size ( see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=145278.0 and https://github.com/runn1ng/namecoin-files )
small community, not enough tools, websites, graphical client . . . )


1878: <p>I like the concept of using a key/value store that is separate from the Bitcoin chain (preventing bloat), but utilizing the Bitcoin hashpower for security.</p>

<ul>
<li><p>What are the dominant issues working against Namecoin today?</p></li>
<li><p>What can be done to correct those issues?</p></li>
<li><p>If you were to reboot the Namecoin project, what changes or improvements would you make?</p></li>
</ul>
 257: <p>Namecoin has a bunch of issues, e.g. it is missing several improvements that Bitcoin got. </p>

<p>The real problem is that nobody has found a way to use it (general data storage) in a way that many people considered useful.</p>

<p>On <a href="http://namecoin.info" rel="nofollow">http://namecoin.info</a> and in the wiki you can find plenty of suggestions for use cases. If you can find one and implement it and it takes off than Namecoin might gain strength as a whole, too. </p>

<p>My latest idea: selling links (no external communication necessary: you pay and receive back a name containing a message encrypted with the public key of the address you payed from)</p>

<p>As many of the other use cases it would be mostly useful for illegal stuff, that's why I am hesitant to go for it.</p>
 4690: <p>Namecoin is great but has a couple of problems:</p>

<ul>
<li>they are too many too complicated ideas around and this confuses and scares people
It needs to make simple and good some basic issues:
<ul>
<li>trading namecoins</li>
<li>registering .bit domains</li>
<li>simple support of .bit domains
/ Finish. That's all.</li>
</ul></li>
<li><p>to reduce registration fees in namecoins was the biggest mistake because created surplus of namecoins and made them too cheap what let the people beleave they are valueless
How to fix this:</p>

<ul>
<li>increase registration fee at least to double</li>
<li>increase 4 times the destroyed namecoins by registration</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p>To restart the chain or to change the block reward inflationary would kill namecoin because nobody would trust any more this system.</p>
 558: <p>First, NMC is not worthless, it have a value and is traded on bitparking ( <a href="https://exchange.bitparking.com/main" rel="nofollow">https://exchange.bitparking.com/main</a> )  and btc-e ( <a href="https://btc-e.com/exchange" rel="nofollow">https://btc-e.com/exchange</a> ), with decent daily trading volume; people saying nmc is worthless are just people wanting to attract you to other altchains( most of them being scams imo ) .</p>

<p>Second, namecoin is an opensource network, it cant really die as long as people use it.
 Also, namecoin is the oldest and most serious alternative coin ( altchain ) to bitcoin.
 NMC price have gone down with merged mining ( increased supply ), but merged mining also made namecoin very secure and long lasting.
 As long as someone will maintain the software ( <a href="https://github.com/namecoin/namecoin" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/namecoin/namecoin</a> ) namecoin will rock as the oldest and best altchain.</p>

<p>Real issues are :</p>

<ul>
<li>possibility to store small files in the blockchain, could lead to increased blockchain size ( see <a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=145278.0" rel="nofollow">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=145278.0</a> and <a href="https://github.com/runn1ng/namecoin-files" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/runn1ng/namecoin-files</a> )</li>
<li>small community, not enough tools, websites, graphical client . . . )</li>
</ul>
