There are over 1 billion websites on the clearnet right now. It’s not Maidsafe’s task to reserve domain names for clearnet holders. BTW clearnet domains are for rent, so these people don’t own their domain. If Namecoin can be considered an example, clearnet domain owners don’t care about our fancy publicID’s. Matter fact we might even get totally ignored by the clearnet establishment at first.
Our next wave is (Tor users, Bittorrent users and cryptocurrency users).
Maidsafe’s current position is like going bare hand to fight somebody with a knife and gun. With maybe 20 people and not even $2 M in the bank at current prices, it’s simply an uphill battle for Maidsafe.
Let’s not forget how long it’s taking the bitcoin (concept of decentralized money) community to educate people about it. The SAFE Network is (decentralized money, decentralized storage,decentralized domain names, cutting edge security) all rolled into one joint. A friendly reminder, just because the SAFE Network is SAFE doesn’t mean that our hardware is.
At this stage we are crawling with this project and we’re totally unaware of possible scenario’s. Imagine that we finally got SAFEcoins and 70K users get on the SAFE Network, but a 10 million botnet user provides resources and this botnet is suddenly taken offline. Will the SAFE Network be able to know the difference between people and botnets? How do we even cope with this sudden impact? I’m not even talking about the haters and how much money they will pour into this to take us of the map.
Adding more exchanges won’t make people more aware of the SAFE Network, but maybe using the resources that we already got in the community might bring some changes. If Maidsafe can generate millions within 6 hours with Maidsafecoins, maybe it can do the same with publicID’s. If anything Urbit clearly shows that people are willing to pay for domains.