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Namesdao - The original .xch Name Service for the Chia Blockchain

Ideas for .xch names

About Namesdao .xch

  • Most Wallet Support: Green App, Namesdao .xch Wallet, Ozone, Frodo, Evergreen. Via our dapp: Goby, Hoogii.
  • High Adoption: more than 8,000 name registrations completed.
  • Record Auction: bank.xch sold for 45.76 XCH.
  • The Original: the first ever chia name service, pioneering .xch names on the Chia blockchain since 2022.
  • Community & Recognition: Covered by XCH Central, XCH Foundation, Digital Spaceport, Hemadao.
  • We Keep Building: Auctions, renewals, API upgrades, performance improvements.
  • Great Availability: Many 4+ letter names open; use NAME tokens for best rates.
  • Supporting Chia Devs: Namesdao Innovation Grants awarded to many of the leading Chia developers to support the development of the ecosystem, since 2022.

A Namesdao .xch Name is a Chia NFT with utility:

  • a simple wallet address you can give to people
  • a personal payment page when you add .am namesdao.xch.am
  • a website/domain name you can point to your own website with our .xch.limo service!

Using NAME tokens, you can get a great .xch name for about $3.50.

Names Like Token Cost XCH Cost Namespace
Goal.xch 100 NAME 15 XCH 4 characters
Fuzzy.xch 20 NAME 2.8 XCH 5 characters
Rabbit.xch 10 NAME 1.4 XCH 6 characters
Tribble.xch 5 NAME (≈$3.50 US) 0.7 XCH 7+ characters
_Spud.xch 0.5 NAME 0.07 XCH Single-Underscore (1u), 4+ chars
___Ribb.xch Free! 0.001 AIR
or 0.001 SBX/NAME		 1 mojo of XCH Triple-Underscore (3u), 4+ chars

Namesdao is currently issuing NAME token offers for about $0.70 per NAME, down from the original $1 per NAME. When XCH price increases, over time NAME price offers from Namesdao will increase back to $1 per NAME.

Coming in 2025

  • Namesdao .xch name support in Three more Chia wallets, in addition to the current 4-6 wallets!

Coming in 2026

  • Namesdao moves to decentralized registration, with backward compatibility!

Recent Releases - We Keep Building!

  • New Helper Tool for xch.limo configuration
  • Auction platform for premium .xch names
  • Opened 4-letter .xch names for registration
  • New Namesdao API site with new endpoints, for easier integration
  • Promos e-list launch
  • Significant performance upgrades throughout our platform’s websites
  • Opened registration of what were formerly Reserved Names, in preparation for decentralized registration
  • Opened 5-letter .xch names for registration
  • On-time release of name renewals

Renew your .xch Name

  • Process: Just like registering, but use the memo “MyName.xch:MyName.xch”; send to the same address, and use the same fee
  • Wallet flexibility: You don’t need to renew from the original wallet/address - you can renew from a different wallet
  • NFT renewal: The new renewal NFT goes to the same wallet as the previous NFT was in at expiry, but you receive a new NFT with a new expiry block
  • Timing requirement: The name MUST be expired before you can renew it
  • Grace period: You have approximately 90 days to renew after a name expires
  • Capitalization changes: You can choose new capitalization when renewing (e.g., MyNaME.xch:MyNaME.xch for myname.xch). Both names in the memo should use the new capitalization

Register a .xch Name

On Your Computer, using XCH or NAME tokens

Windows/Mac/Linux: Chia Wallet using XCH or NAME tokens

On Your Cell Phone, using XCH or NAME tokens

Android/iOS: Sage Wallet using XCH or NAME tokens

With Chia Wallet, using NAME tokens (or XCH)

  1. Get some NAME token via Dexie (or for a free triple-underscore name, ask for some AIR token in our Discord)

  2. Send your 5 or 10 NAME tokens (or 0.5 NAME or 0.001 AIR, see above) to: xch1jhye8dmkhree0zr8t09rlzm9cc82mhuqtp5tlmsj4kuqvs69s2wsl90su4 and click on “Show Advanced Options” and enter in “Memo” the name you want, e.g. ThisName.xch Names are case-insensitive; the capitalization you submit will be used in the display name shown in the NFT image.

  3. Wait a minute or two and check the NFT in the Chia Wallet for your new Namesdao .xch Name!

Note: If you want to check on the name availability, see the form at the top of this page. Names must be 4 or more letters or numbers at this moment for names with no underscores at the beginning, or 4 or more letters or numbers for names with 1 or 3 underscores at the beginning.

  1. In your Chia wallet, you can also add NAME (or AIR) to your token list so you see your tokens better. The Asset Id for NAME is 4c4380af7d15c896d9e6266f322ac494c398803032eef56f2ab65877956d007f and the Asset Id for AIR is 824c71e37ac660006e03f7884561e7a124d930460ae1506a9c234c06ebc6aa1d.
    • After clicking on “Tokens” in the top left, click on “Manage Token List” at the bottom left:
    • Click on the plus sign “+” at the top right edge of the menu that pops up:
    • Fill in the name “NAME” and the Asset Id: 4c4380af7d15c896d9e6266f322ac494c398803032eef56f2ab65877956d007f

Use a .xch Name

  • Namesdao .xch names are integrated directly into 4 wallets, plus 2 more via our dapp (Goby and Hoogii)
  • Use your .xch names directly in Frodo Wallet, Evergreen Mobile App, Green Wallet App and Ozone Wallet
  • To send XCH, tokens and NFTs, with wallets like Evergreen Mobile App and Frodo Wallet
  • As a website, namesdao.xch.am
  • Send a payment With Goby wallet or Hoogii wallet, at dapp.namesdao.org
  • Advanced Users: With our namesdao-cli
  • More wallets coming soon…

More options and info for advanced users below!

Plus check out our About Page to learn more about our highly experienced team, one of the best in the Chia space

Check out our Dapp website for lots of more goodies

Namesdao Firsts include…

  • First Name Service to launch on the Chia blockchain
  • First Wallet to support .xch names
  • First PGP/gpg-encrypted memos on the Chia blockchain
  • First Service Usable from Chia Wallet using Memo’s
  • First two-letter xch TLD extension Name Service / Personalized Payment Page (.cx/.am)
  • First .xch name supporting payment Dapp for browser extension wallets
  • First blockchain with free tier in a Name Service
  • First error messages/refunds using memo’s to indicate cause
  • First Command-line interface to support .xch names & CAT2 token transfers (for reg)
  • First DNS resolution via Chia blockchain
  • First Chia blockchain app using DID metadata

Milestones

  • DNS resolution via Chia blockchain
  • Simplified registration, eliminating need to indicate destination address for the Name
  • Released auto-refunds for failed registrations made with NAME tokens
  • Upgraded refund transactions to provide an error message / explanation in the memo
  • Released general availability of zero-underscore names
  • CHIP-0009, Chia Improvement Proposal created and submitted to the community
  • Upgraded Namesdao-cli to support registrations paid with NAME token, including cloaked registrations
  • Started staggered rollout of zero-underscore(0u) names
  • chia-crypto-utils adds Namesdao API support
  • Released cloaked registrations & upgraded namesdao-cli
  • Namesdao .xch wallet packaged for Ubuntu/Debian
  • Namesdao .xch wallet release
  • Faster Secondary Name Resolver
  • Dapp upgrade to default payment values
  • Released .xch.am personalized payment page
  • First secondary market sales of Namesdao .xch Name NFT’s
  • Released first paid tier, single-underscore names
  • Namedrop of single-underscore names to triple-underscore namesholders
  • Released .xch.cx personalized payment page
  • Released dapp for easy registration and payments using .xch name
  • Namesdao-cli release for making XCH payments
  • Register with XCH
  • Launch with free triple-underscore tier w/ CATs payment
  • Free AIR token distribution

Biggest Misconceptions about Namesdao

  • Some people think “Name resolution is centralized” - No, the Chia blockchain is the primary name resolver
  • Some people think “It’s a domain name” - Yes, and it’s also more than that, since it’s an NFT and it’s also a wallet address!

More Notes

Your .xch name is case-insensitive, but the NFT will store the capitalization you used when you requested the name and have that available as a Display Name attribute, and also use that name in the NFT image we create for your .xch name.

We’ll be generating offers for NAME tokens in XCH at the rate of approximately $1 per NAME token at the time of offer creation, at the present time.

Namesdao is in the process of building a decentralized name registration solution to complement its existing decentralized name resolution. Names can be used to send tokens using our Goby wallet-integrated dapp at https://dapp.namesdao.org/ or our open source command-line interface, namesdao-cli. Stay tuned for news about more support. These two methods initially use our secondary cache lookup provided as a convenience.

Note: Names initially may be up to 100 characters long, but may not be 62 characters long.

You may pay more than the minimum registration fee. Any additional amount will be considered a contribution to Namesdao and much appreciated.

The Goby-wallet-integrated dapp only supports payment in XCH at this moment. We hope to add NAME token payment support in the not too distant future.

The XCH registration price may be updated over time, e.g. monthly, check our website for latest details

Namesdao .xch Names leverage the extensive infrastructure of Chia NFT1 names, including offers, transfers, wallet support, NFT explorers and more. A Namesdao name may be sold or transferred easily. Existing names holders have placed names for sales at prices from 0.42069 XCH, up to 666 XCH.

Namesdao .xch names are provided without warranty or guaranty and Namesdao’s liability shall be limited to the registration fee paid to Namesdao, excluding the Chia blockchain transaction fee. This is an experimental product in an early beta test release.

Thank you all for support and encouragement, and a special thanks for the mentions on Twitter and other social networks.

Namesdao is not affiliated with the Chia Network Inc. corporation.