Reddit description needs revision
The r/Namecoin subreddit's old description has a bunch of problems:
- Too much focus on currency applications.
- Too much focus on censorship resistance and not enough on MITM resistance.
- Too much focus on ICANN and not enough on DNS registries, registrars, and public resolvers.
- Endorsement of public centralized inproxies is unacceptable.
This issue is for drafting a new subreddit description.
To improve (4), I suggest the following replacement:
Old text:
Dot bit domains are not currently awarded, hence to resolve domain names, one must have either a copy of the Namecoin block chain, or access to a public DNS server that participates in the Namecoin system.
New text:
.bitdomains are "special-use" (not part of the DNS; similar to.onion); hence, to resolve.bitdomain names, one must have either a copy of the Namecoin block chain (a full node such as Namecoin Core) or a lightweight SPV client (such as Electrum-NMC or ConsensusJ-Namecoin).
Note that (4) is likely to be a blocker for listing Namecoin on PrivacyTools.io (specifically the item "looking through their documentation and ensuring they don't have suggestions for using NameCoin domains without their software").
I will consider the proposed changes for (4) to be accepted if no NACKs are received within 1 week.
My proposal for (4) has been adopted with no objections expressed either on GitHub or Reddit.