I'd really, really like to see Namecoin succeed. It's not gained wide adoption to this point but it's not a dead technology. Further, it can be integrated well

I'd really, really like to see Namecoin succeed. It's not gained wide adoption to this point but it's not a dead technology. Further, it can be integrated well within the current DNS infrastructure - granted, without the censorship/security protections offered by the natively decentralized nature of running a full node yourself. There's absolutely no reason a DNS server couldn't maintain a list of entries for .bit domains.