DFS on 2008 R2 and 2012 R2 simultaneously

First of let me preface this by saying DFS newbie here so any help is appreciated.
Background: Currently in our environment we have one 2008 R2 box running the DFS Role Services. It has a handful (< 10) namespaces configured. We also have several 2003 servers with multiple fileshares. None of these 2003 shares
are configured for dfs or replication to my knowledge. We are trying move all the data and shares off of the 2003 servers so they can be retired.
Question and options: Too avoid having to do the 2003 -> 2008 -> 2012 dance I'd like to go ahead and move as much as possible to directly to 2012R2. So the question I guess is can I have different namespaces for
\\mydomain.com configured on both the 2008 R2 and a 2012 R2 at the same time? I don't necessarily want to move anything off of the 2008 server at the moment; just leave it alone. What I'd like to do is set up
2 new 2012R2 servers with the DFS role installed and move all the data from the 2003 servers to new replicated shares on the 2012 servers. These will be new different namespaces from the ones on the 2008 server but still be
\\mydomain.com Can namespaces for the same domain and the dfs roles co-exist on both the 2008 and the 2012 servers at the same time independently?
Any information as to if this will work or better ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks

Hi,
We can create different namespaces for \\mydomain.com configured on both the 2008 R2 and a 2012 R2 at the same time. If you click “Add Namespaces to Display…” on a DFS server, you could view all namespaces for \\mydomain.com configured on the current DFS server.
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