Since the us govt is the one who seizes the most domains though, why did you pick the us domain to run it from? Would it make sense to at least offer another tld just in case?
When I was looking for domains, it was the cheapest namecoin.* domain, so I grabbed it. You're right, I need to get it on more domains for sure. I have namecoin.ch and just added it to my list of things to get done. The DNS servers are already distributed around the world so they should always be reachable by IP and they should always fulfill the request.
Or is the idea that if the government shuts it down, it would already have sites people wanted to see, and show the problem more clearly and get people to change to resolve the .bit root directly?
The second part you mentioned I never really thought of, but the irony would be noteworthy for sure. Does anyone know of what kind of legal challenges similar services (like dyndns, noip, etc) have had and how they deal with takedowns?
Namecoin Us is a *tiny* sliver of the overall namecoin community. Even if some authority comes after namecoin.us/ch (soon
), there are MANY other ways to resolve that domain. In the end, no one can touch a namecoin domain except the person with the correct wallet.dat -- which is the ultimate goal. 
