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 See https://dot-bit.org/ for more project information.
 
-Namecoin is a peer to peer naming system based on bitcoin.  It is a secure and cnesorship reistant replacement for DNS.
+Namecoin is a peer to peer naming system based on bitcoin.  It is a secure and censorship resistant replacement for DNS.
 
 Ownership of a name is based on ownership of a coin, which is in turn based on public key cryptography.  The namecoin network reaches consensus every few minutes as to which names have been reserved or updated.