+-- Number of ten minute intervals elapsed since creation of Namecoin
+-- on April 18, 2011. Another option would be to use blockcount
+-- but that would require another lookup, and we are cheap.
+-- Yet another - to use (const - expires_in) from the lookup.
+nmcAge = fmap (\x -> floor ((x - 1303070400) / 600)) getPOSIXTime
+
+-- run a PowerDNS coprocess. Negotiate ABI version and execute requests.