RNS

claim a name before somebody else does.

the short ones run out. one year at a time, forever. A name on RNS resolves to your address, and your address resolves back to it. Nothing is reserved, there is no allowlist and no cap — from the first block it is first transaction wins, at the same burn for everybody.

.hood

a-z, 0-9 and hyphens, up to 32 characters. shorter costs more.

the registry is live and closed: the token has not launched, so no name can be claimed by anybody yet — including whoever deployed it.

names claimed
claims
renewals
burned

the ladder

What you burn depends only on how long the name is, per year, every year. It is a frozen constant in the contract: there is no function that changes it and no owner who could.

1 character
4,000,000
2 characters
1,000,000
3 characters
250,000
4 characters
60,000
5 characters
20,000
6 characters
8,000
7 characters
4,000
8 to 11
1,500
12 and up
400

all of it burned to 0x…dEaD. the registry holds no tokens and no ETH.

how it works

  1. claim. pick a name, burn the fee, and it is yours for a year and resolves to your address from that block on.
  2. renew. any time, up to five years ahead, at the same burn. anybody can renew a live name and it always credits the owner.
  3. expire. thirty days of amber warning, then a thirty day grace month only the owner can renew in, then it is free and the records are wiped.
  4. send. it is a real ERC-721 with its plate drawn on chain, so it can be transferred or sold like anything else.
all of it, in detail →

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