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+% Namecoin pipe backend for PowerDNS
+
+```
+Copyright (c) 2014 Eugene Crosser
+
+This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
+warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages
+arising from the use of this software.
+
+Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,
+including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it
+freely, subject to the following restrictions:
+
+    1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must
+    not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this
+    software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation
+    would be appreciated but is not required.
+
+    2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must
+    not be misrepresented as being the original software.
+
+    3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source
+    distribution.
+```
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+## Namecoin pipe backend for PowerDNS
+
+There exists a [project](https://github.com/namecoin/nmcontrol) to
+create an all-in-one tool that can, among other things, act as a DNS
+server for the `.bit` zone. There is also a
+[tool](https://github.com/namecoin/NamecoinToBind) for offline
+conversion of namecoin data into BIND zone file.
+
+Unlike that, this project is a single-purpose tool acting as a (real
+time) bridge between [Namecoin](https://namecoin.org/) and DNS.
+[PowerDNS](https://www.powerdns.com/) provides a stable DNS frontend,
+with an easy to implement backend interface, which is used in this
+project.
+
+# Status
+
+Alpha. It does not handle `SRV` records at all, does not support
+`delegate` (not to mention `import`), provides bogus version in the
+`SOA` record, and is largely untested. Try at your risk.