The People's Root
Superlink Registrar // Bob Wallet Multisig // Clone Varo Nameservers // DeName Marketplace
Superlink is a new domain registrar that enables the cleanest possible personal domain names — first name dot last name domains. To do so, Superlink owns and operates over one million last name top-level domains (TLDs) on Handshake. That’s right, this newly announced startup has accumulated over ten percent of all registered Handshake TLDs to date.
As an open root zone to register any name, Handshake enables many new naming patterns. The root zone is no longer reserved for TLDs generic enough to appeal to an internet-scale audience and profitable enough to afford ICANN’s costly annual fees. Now, surnames big and small, American to Zimbabwean can serve their respective audiences. Superlink measures that their supply of last name TLDs can offer first name domains for nearly half the global population; Handshake is truly the people’s root.
Today on Superlink, customers can register domains for available last names or sign up to be notified when new ones are added. Handshake collectors with last name TLDs will also have the opportunity to contribute and sell domains on the platform.
The newly launched registrar markets multiple upcoming uses for their extensive domain collections from websites to email, wallets, and usernames. Superlink has been accumulating TLDs for three years since roughly Handshake’s inception and is led by Matt Winn (previously GoDaddy via acquisition of Over).
🤝 What’s Shaking?
This Week in Handshake
Bob Wallet V2 A new version of Bob Wallet was released with multi-signature wallet support and the ability to send transfers using HIP2 address aliasing.
Handshake Turned 3 It was Handshake’s biggest year yet. Check out our recap from Beacon Browser to the first four ICANN TLDs bridging onto Handshake.
Clone Varo Domains Run your own Handshake name hosting service. Offer white-labeled name hosting solutions for your HNS project. For questions, join their Discord.
Buy It Now DeName is a TLD marketplace. Connect your FxWallet app to bid in auctions or trade TLDs on a non-custodial buy-it-now secondary market.
Shake Leaderboard We’ve added .Stars to our TLD leaderboard. Stars is a Handshake TLD and Cosmos-based namespace with 9K+ domain registrations.
Custom Metadata Using Impervious Registry and want to issue subdomains with branded visuals? We've open-sourced the metadata server used by .RECORDS
📈 By The Numbers
Network Metrics
Handshake crosses 10 million names.
⚡ DWEB
Fleek
"Upon each new IPFS deployment for a given site, the custom domains service will... automatically update the CDN pullzone to represent the latest version of your site"
🤝 For more Handshake and DWeb resources, visit theshake.xyz