What to set up after you buy a Web3 name
A new name points to nothing until you tell it where to point. These are the records worth setting first, and the order that avoids mistakes.
A new name points to nothing until you tell it where to point. These are the records worth setting first, and the order that avoids mistakes.
Buying a Web3 name gives you control of an entry on a blockchain. On its own that entry is empty. What makes the name useful is the set of records you attach to it: the wallet address it stands for, a website it can open, and optional details such as a picture or a short description.
You edit those records in the provider’s dashboard, signed in with the wallet that holds the name. Each change is a small transaction, so expect to confirm it in your wallet and, on some networks, to pay a small network fee. That fee goes to the network, not to the provider and not to us.
The most important record. It decides where payments sent to the name arrive. Use the address of a wallet you control and have backed up. Copy it from the wallet itself, never from a message or an old note.
Send a very small amount to the name from another wallet and confirm it arrives where you expect. Do this before you share the name with anyone.
If you use more than one blockchain, the name can hold a separate address for each. Add only the networks you actually use. An empty record is safer than a wrong one.
Optional. It decides what opens when someone visits the name in software that supports it. Guide 05 covers the choices.
Optional. A picture, a short description or links to your profiles. Anything you add here is public, and earlier versions stay readable in the blockchain history after you change them.
A record pointing to the wrong address sends money there, and blockchain payments cannot be reversed. Compare the first and last six characters with the address shown in your own wallet, then run the test payment. Never use an address someone else sends you for this.
Review the records whenever your setup changes. If you move to a new wallet, update the receiving address the same day and send a fresh test payment. If you stop using a network, remove its record rather than leaving an old address in place.
The name stays yours while you edit it. Changing a record does not transfer the name, and nobody else can change a record without access to the wallet that holds it.
No. The name is yours either way. Until the receiving address is set, though, wallets cannot look it up, so payments sent to the name will fail rather than arrive.
Each change is a transaction. Depending on the network it may carry a small network fee. It is not a renewal and not a charge from the provider.
It is safer not to. Exchange deposit addresses can change, and some exchanges do not credit payments that arrive in unusual ways. Point the name to a wallet you hold yourself.
No. Records on a blockchain are public by design. Do not add anything you would not print on a business card.
With the receiving address set, the website record decides what opens when someone visits the name.