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nameservice: added readme with instructions

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# Ring Nameservice
Ring Nameservice is used to resolve easily memorable usernames to Ring IDs. Ring clients communicate with the Nameservice using HTTP.
To run, make sure you have Solidity compiler `solc` installed.
Instructions for Ubuntu:
```
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ethereum/ethereum
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install solc
```
Then do a `make` in the project root directory.
You'll need to use Python 3.5+ to run the nameservice. If you already don't have tmux installed, do `pip install tmux`, and then:
```
python start_eth_cluster.py
```
Finally, make sure you have nodejs and npm install, do:
```
npm install
sudo nodejs index.js
```
(we need sudo for Express server to listen on port 80)
This will launch the HTTP server used to interface with the nameservice.
Send a GET request to `name/<username>` to get its Ring ID. Send a POST request to `name/<username>` to register new username-RingID pair.
Optionally, you can dump all username-RingID pairs to file using:
```
nodejs read_names.js
```
This will dump all the username-RingID pairs to `names.json` file.
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