Six steps, and the important thing about them is where they happen: the first three are here, the last three are on the provider’s platform. We help you find the right extension; Freename handles everything from the search box onwards.
You need somewhere for the name to live. Any wallet the provider supports will do, and if you already hold crypto you almost certainly have one. Set it up before you start rather than midway through a purchase.
Availability is checked on the provider’s platform, so it helps to arrive with two or three options. Short names go first; a longer extension pairs better with a short name in front of it.
No account here, no email, no subscription. This site has no login because there is nothing to log into — we do not hold names, take payments or store your details.
The price depends on the ending and on how short the name is. Single characters and common words cost more, the same way they do in traditional domains. Whatever it is, you pay it once — there is no annual invoice keeping the name alive.
Minting writes to a blockchain, and that write costs a small transaction fee paid to the network rather than to anyone selling you something. It varies with how busy the chain is at that moment.
This catalogue is free to read and takes no payment. Our links to Freename are affiliate links, which means the provider may pay us a share of a sale. It does not change your price.
The most common use, and the one that needs no setup beyond pointing the name at a wallet. Anyone paying you types a name instead of copying a forty-character string and hoping they got it right.
Depending on what the provider supports, a name can carry an avatar, a website and social handles. Wallets and Web3 apps read those records, so one name identifies you across all of them.
The name sits in your wallet as an asset. Moving it to another wallet or selling it is a transaction you make yourself, without asking a registrar for permission.
You need a wallet and enough balance to cover the purchase and the network fee. If you have never held crypto, that first step — funding a wallet — is usually the slowest part of the whole process, so it is worth doing before you settle on a name you might lose to someone else in the meantime.
Then it is taken — names are first come, first served, and neither we nor the provider can release one that is registered. This is why it helps to arrive with two or three options. Note that the same name is available separately under each ending, so studio being gone under one ending says nothing about the next.
No. Minting is a blockchain transaction and there is no cancel button and no refund window. What you can change afterwards is everything the name points at, as often as you like, and you can sell or transfer the name itself.
No. This site is a catalogue. Registration, payment and management all happen at Freename, the provider that operates these endings.
web3s.domains helps you discover domain extensions. Domain search, availability, payment, minting, transfers and management are handled by the relevant domain provider. If something goes wrong with a purchase, the provider is who can fix it — we have no access to your transaction, your wallet or your name.