Questions

The name in front of the dot, under one of these endings: yourname.chainwallet. The endings themselves are not for sale and never will be here; this site is a catalogue of them, not a shop. Each ending is operated by the provider, and thousands of different names can exist under the same one.

It is minted to your wallet as a token and stays there. Nobody invoices you for it, and nobody can suspend it because a payment failed — there are no payments after the first one. The trade-off is that nobody can restore it for you either.

The name goes where the wallet goes. There is no password reset and no support desk that can recover it, because nobody else holds it — that is the same trade-off as any other asset in a self-custodied wallet. Back up your recovery phrase before you buy anything.

On Freename, the provider that operates these extensions. Every extension page here has a link that takes you straight to that extension on their platform.

Prices are set by the provider and vary by extension and by name length, so we do not quote them here — the figure you see on the provider’s page is the one that applies.

Try a different extension. The collection is organised so that most ideas have more than one plausible home, and a name taken under one extension is usually free under another.

No, and it is worth being clear about this: a Web3 name does not resolve in the ordinary DNS that the whole web runs on, so it cannot replace a .com for a public website. Most people hold both — the traditional domain for the site, the Web3 name for the wallet and onchain identity.

Neither. A Web3 name is a pointer, not a service. There is no server behind it, no inbox and no control panel of the kind a hosting company gives you. What it can point at depends on what the provider supports.

Browsers with native Web3 support, browsers with an extension installed, and public gateways. An ordinary browser with no extension will not resolve it, which is why a Web3 name is usually shared as a link rather than dictated.

Where the provider supports it, yes — a name can carry records for a site, an avatar and social profiles as well as wallet addresses. What is available depends on the provider, not on us.

Yes. Thirteen extensions in the collection are written in other scripts. The name displays as written and resolves through its punycode form underneath, which is the standard mechanism for internationalised domains.

We do not present it as one and we make no claim about future value. Some names have resold for large sums and most have not. Buy one because you want to use it — as an address, a handle, a brand — not because you expect it to appreciate.

No. We are a directory. We do not register names, take payments, hold funds or manage anything after a purchase.

Yes — links to the provider are affiliate links, and they are marked as such in the page markup. It costs you nothing and does not affect which extensions we list or how we describe them.