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We loved working with @coredao_org for *CORE Name Tokens with @BrendonSedo @richrines and team.
The #Coretoshi community can now pay with $CORE! Wen @D3inc x #CoreIgnition? 👀
Get your .core domain! You can now pay in $CORE for the #Coretoshis and be eligible for a giveaway and #CoreIgnition Points.
Excited to have this launched with @heyheyfred and the D3 team. Making *core domain a top tier digital asset.
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Spending the week in Hanoi for the ICANN APAC DNS Forum — but what’s unfolding here goes far beyond ICANN.
Two years ago I told Thanh Le we’d come back with more than ideas. We’d bring proof that domains could mean something more in this region. Identity. Utility. Culture. Not just a registry, but infrastructure people can use every day.
Now it’s happening and you can feel the shift. Viction is becoming a digital backbone for Vietnam. Daily usage is surging. Builders are shipping. The foundation is real. This country has lived through dynasties, colonial powers, global shifts — and now it’s shaping its own digital future, with DNS as a base.
Their community is now over 4 million strong and growing fast, with support that runs deep — including from institutions and the local government. In the past, they’ve brought together tens of thousands at physical events, and this summer they’re set to host 200+ side gatherings across the region. Excited about their growth, momentum, and what’s next.
Grateful to be building alongside a team that shares a long-term vision. This one goes well beyond the tech. Stay tuned!
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I could not be more passionate about fixing this name-collision problem!
#HSCLifeRules by Fred Hsu (@heyheyfred), CEO & Co-Founder at @D3inc
For Fred, it all comes down to user experience. If copying a 30-digit wallet address still feels like defusing a bomb, we’ve got a problem. Real adoption will come when sending assets from Andy.sol to Fred.ape is as simple and reliable as sending an email!
#HackSeasonsOpportunityMixer #HSC25 #HSCLifeRulesByFredHsu
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Web3 and domains seem like a perfect match, right? But solutions like ENS and Unstoppable Domains face challenges that limit their broader use. Let’s break down the issues. 🧵⤵️
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One year ago, it took me 9 steps to connect my ENS name with my .COM on GoDaddy just to enable Web3↔Web2 resolution (no name collision).
Now it’s 1 step for every domain via Doma-integrated registrars to reach ~127 million Ethereum users and wallets.
Painkillers > Vitamins. 💊
Come by tomorrow and learn more where both D3 and ENS teams present 👇
If you're in Dublin for @ICANN, join us for the DomainFi Blueprint workshop co-hosted with @DomaProtocol! 🇮🇪
We're bringing together registrars, builders, and innovators to shape the future of tokenized domains.
RSVP ⤵️
luma.com/doma-ens-icann-dubl…
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We love making frens 🤝 but the bigger mission is building bridges
doma.eth bought for 1.50 ETH (6,501.51 USD) on Opensea #ENS #Web3Names #EnsNames
opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0…
🟢 Fair-launch coins. Earn 50% fees @freeedotfun
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Big step forward with @ensdomains and @domaprotocol - bridging DNS and Web3 the way it should’ve always worked. 🌐🤝
Tokenized DNS domains (.com, .ai, .xyz, etc.) on @DomaProtocol will seamlessly function as native ENS names, thanks to our latest collaboration with @D3inc.
Read the details ⤵️
ens.domains/blog/post/d3-dom…
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Got two unsolicited offers on my .AI name in the span of 2 weeks - one for $50, one for $11,000.
The Web3 degenerate in me says: screw it, let’s token it, tighten the spread, build a real order book, then spin up synthetics for liquid staking and perps with 5–100x leverage. (Translation: more liquidity, more composability, more fun.)
The Web2 domainer in me says: just get me top dollar. I’ll take cash, wire, USDC, Bitcoin, or a couple of goats if they come with yield.
Either way, the market’s waking up. Who’s with me?
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Talked to a domainer with a $1B+ portfolio and not surprised that 90% of it just sits.
That used to be strategy. Now it looks like waste. Tokenization isn’t some future bet, it’s already happening. Case in point:
-Partners are live in Testnet
-Domains are moving
-Paper contracts → programmable assets
-Idle names → liquid inventory
It's the same DNS but with newer rails. You have wallet-level utility that just didn’t exist before. This isn’t disruption for disruption’s sake. It’s upgrading the most valuable digital real estate on the internet.
I’ve been doing this for 25 years and it finally feels like we’re building what the space deserves. DomainFi is already doing the work
The $360B domain industry is broken.
90% of premium domains sit idle, trapped by speculators.
Fred Hsu, CEO of @d3inc, argues fractional ownership is the only way forward: unlocking liquidity, enabling community governance, and turning internet real estate from feudal estates into productive assets.
Read more: thedefiant.io/news/research-…
Presented by RWA Institute
#RWA #D3 #DeFi #DomainFi
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20 years ago I built the world’s largest domain parking program out of college. Google was the oxygen. Domain sales were growing, but parking was where most of the action lived.
Today, domain monetization is evolving. Parking, leasing, fractional sales, AI search/content. It all comes down to one thing: better plumbing, more tools, and less middlemen.
If you’re in the domain world:
1) Do you want one buyer or many?
2) Prefer closed networks or open marketplaces?
3) Controls like lease your land, time-share traffic, or sell outright?
Curious what my domain industry friends think. Comment below and let’s compare notes.
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Always a good day when you’re surrounded by domain OGs. Great catching up in downtown LA with Tom Barrett (@EnCirca) and Braden Pollock (@BradenPollock ).
The internet keeps evolving — but the real ones never leave.
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DomainFi is live.
From .com's to Web3 gTLDs, identity is evolving and this convo’s gonna flip more than just domains.
Let’s talk ownership, domains, and next-gen DNS with @ShytoshiKusama and the #ShibArmy.
🤔 Ever wondered who owns your name on the blockchain?
Maybe it’s time you did. DomainFi is here.
Join our X Space → July 25, 10:30 - 11:00 AM EST
w/
@ShytoshiKusama
@heyheyfred
& the #ShibArmy 🐾
Set your reminder 👇 nitter.app/i/spaces/1vAGRDvWZrjxl
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Come and join us Monday, it's always a delight to talk shop with @BrendonSedo 💪
🎙️Domains & Degens Ep. 3 🎙️
Join our very own @HeyHeyFred, @cultra & @Mannyygg together with @BrendonSedo from @CoreDAO_org to discuss everything *CORE, the new Internet and more!
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Gdoma, Nerd fact: Doma 도마 (Korean: cutting board). Дома (Russian/Ukrainian: home). Funny how one word captures both where you slice things up — and where you settle in.
What does doma mean in your native language?
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You don’t light up a Dubai mall with a seven-letter dot-com unless you’re making a global play.
Domains like this still carry trust, reach, and permanence — in any language.
Now apply that to next-gen identity.
Interoperable. Ownable. Onchain. Trusted.
That’s what we’re building at D3.
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When it comes to domains, do you bet on the real DNS root that powers the internet like .com, .ai, .xyz, .org, the system everyone from Google to governments depends on? Or do you gamble on alt-roots- parallel systems that risk collisions, break compatibility, and confuse end users? I know where I stand.
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True story. Michael Saylor was a domainer before he was a bitcoiner. We used to deal with him in the 2000’s. You can’t put a price on conviction, but you can close a deal on a premium .COM.
Michael Saylor lost $6B in a single day when the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, one of the largest single-day personal losses in history at that point.
But while his MicroStrategy stock collapsed with everything else, the premium domains he'd been quietly acquiring during the 90s just sat there, holding their value.
Emma, Mike, Wisdom, Alert, Voice, and all those single-word domains averaging around $100k each, totaling about $2M in acquisitions.
When the crash came, these didn't evaporate the way stock prices did. The internet kept growing, domains still resolved, and the scarcity remained provably real even as the speculative valuations burned down around them.
That distinction mattered.
Saylor wasn't just holding these domains as digital collectibles. He was building actual businesses around some of them and commercializing others through MicroStrategy's research and development division.
Alarm .com became a real home security company. Angel .com turned into a customer experience platform. The companies performed, and when the market stabilized, buyers showed up.
Block .one approached Saylor about Voice .com in 2019, offering $150k initially. He said no. They doubled it to $300k, then $600k, then kept climbing.
At $12M, Saylor got on the phone and told them the domain was like his daughter. He'd only sell it to someone who valued it more than he did. They closed at $30M, which was 200x their initial offer and remains the largest pure domain sale in history.
One year after that sale, Saylor announced MicroStrategy would start buying Bitcoin as their primary treasury reserve asset. He spent $250M in two weeks acquiring over 21,000 BTC.
The thesis makes perfect sense when you see the through line.
Domains proved that digital assets with real utility and provable scarcity can survive complete market collapses while speculative plays go to zero.
The infrastructure persists even when the hype dies, and if you own the foundational pieces, the value eventually finds you again.
Most people remember Saylor for his Bitcoin conviction, but domains were the lesson that taught him which digital assets actually last.
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Great spending two weeks in Asia meeting with our partners, clients, and our growing APAC team.
Look who I ran into in Singapore - our friend Jack from DN·com, a fellow purveyor of a two-letter DOT COM. A perfect symbol of traditional domains meeting, not colliding, with Web3.
Like I always tell the team:
1- History always repeats, often where East meets West. Day 0
2-Everything from tech to AI still runs on the Internet (read: Real domains)
We’re hiring: D3.com/careers 🌏
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Our friend @KyleSamani from @multicoin crushing it on Stage at AllIn 2025 👏
I’ll be giving a presentation tomorrow at the @allinsummit at ~1:30 pacific time. I’ll be talking about Internet Capital Markets.
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Spoiler alert: Real domains aka true online real estate don’t crash to zero - they just quietly compound in value because businesses actually need and use them.
That’s why .COM, .AI, and root-based domains win. Alt-roots? Just noise.
Own and trade the Internet.
Unpopular opinion after a week in Seoul:
The least sexy asset class might be the best one.
Domains don't pump 1000x. They don't crash to zero.
They just maintain inherent value as digital real estate that businesses actually need.
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What Tokenization in Domains Actually Unlocks
Feel free to weigh in @domainpro @BradenPollock @abcproductions and domain industry friends and OGs:
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Excited to bring The Internet to Base (@coinbase) via DomainFi.
When the chance to work together came up, it was obvious — liquidity and composability are exactly what this real-world asset needed.
Look ma, one big selfie family.
(P.S. @cbventures is an investor.)
@domaprotocol
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Coinbase Wallet has evolved.
The @baseapp is your new onchain home to post, earn, trade, chat, and connect.
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I’ve known domainers who have flipped domains to buy houses and flipped houses to buy domains.
Owning and trading the Internet sounds like a lot less sweat compared to title, insurance, appraisals, county taxes, federal taxes, Home Depot visits, trash man, plumber, termite infestations, monthly gardeners, frozen pipes, forgetting to turn off the water, Nest cameras.
What do you think? Own and Trade the Internet, or Own and flip houses?
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All roads lead to real domains. Founders across Web1, Web2, Web3 know it — RPC endpoints, wallets, blockchains, IP addresses, settlement rails — it all resolves back to domains.
AI is the latest proof point. The explosion of .AI shows that if AI is the future, domains are the rails it runs on. Own and trade the Internet.
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Network State is a great conference, but the domain on stage says it all: NS·COM a Two-letter dot COM. In Asia. Proof the world still pays for scarcity, clarity, and status online. So while fads fade, premium domains never will.
Domainer friends - what do you think is the value of NS·COM?
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Part of living in both Web2 & Web3, East & West, is spotting the overlaps — culture, tech, and the domains that power both.
In Vietnam, .COM and .VN are the anchors. Which TLD do you see rising to join them in the next 5–10 years?
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hell yeah
The world’s first blockchain (@domaprotocol) to tokenize internet domains is integrating LayerZero as its canonical interoperability layer.
Doma is bringing the liquidity of 364M+ domains onchain, connecting the internet’s first asset class to the rest of crypto.
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We're live at Dominion in Vegas! Here I am discussing the future of digital identity and real domains. No alt-roots. No copy pasta. Secured by the DNS.
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This is hilarious and kind of surreal — my U.S. Patent 7,945,662 B2 (aka “keyword-point method”) is finally expiring in a few months. Filed it back in 2004 when I was a nerdy CS grad out of UCLA and our business was starting to take off in downtown LA. It ended up powering billions in ad revenue for companies like Google, Yahoo, Verisign, and a whole generation of domainers — many of whom built real businesses off the back of this simple concept.
What was the idea? Really basic: if you owned a good domain name, people would type it in. And if you had people typing in a domain, you could show them relevant ads. If they clicked, boom - you made money. We used to have advertisers begging for traffic, paying $100+ CPM for popunders just to get a slot. This was domain parking before Google even really understood the market. The crazy thing is, when I show folks today the old RALLY*COM pages or patent diagrams, they instantly go: “ohhh… those pages.” Yup. That was us.
And yes, it’s funny how intellectual property ages. It doesn’t make headlines like NFTs or AI agents, but back then, this was cutting-edge monetization tech. It transcended Web1, Web2, and still influences how traffic and attention get priced in Web3 and beyond.
Sometimes the most obvious, boring ideas — typed-in traffic + keyword mapping — end up becoming the most enduring. Proud of this one. A little piece of internet history.
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Korea, let’s make domains great again. Real domains are the keys to the internet’s future.
한국, 도메인을 다시 위대하게 만들자. 진짜 도메인이 인터넷의 미래를 여는 열쇠다.
Featured Fireside Chat with Arthur Hayes 🔥
Speakers:
🎤 @CryptoHayes CIO, @maelstromfund
🎤 @heyheyfred CEO & Co-Founder, @D3inc / @domaprotocol
Expect hot takes, bold predictions, DomainFi deep dives, and an exclusive look at what’s next for the crypto markets.
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Hell yea
D3 x ENS: connecting DNS and Web3 identities 🤝
Through @DomaProtocol, tokenized DNS domains (.com, .ai, .xyz, etc.) can now function natively as ENS names @ensdomains across the Ethereum ecosystem.
Real internet infrastructure → Real Web3 utility 🌐
What this means? 👇
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The Squarespace debacle highlights the critical importance of domain security and your best defense is every step you take to ensure the safety of your domains. 🧵👇
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Next stop: Dublin 🇮🇪, where Web2 meets Web3.
If you care about domains, identity, or the next Internet, this is the one you don’t miss, especially with ICANN’s new gTLD round just months away.
@ensdomains @domaprotocol @D3inc
Next stop: DomainFi Blueprint with @ensdomains | ICANN Dublin 🇮🇪
Co-hosted by ENS Domains @ensdomains and @Domaprotocol, our workshop brings registrars, industry leaders, and innovators together to explore the future of tokenized domains and Web3-ready infrastructure.
Web2 meets Web3 in the same room. 🌐
RSVP 👇
luma.com/doma-ens-icann-dubl…
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Richard Lau and I go way back—20 years ago we were working on domain data over FTP while 60 servers (many without lids) hummed in my downtown LA office, behind a college dorm couch, window AC buzzing nonstop.
Fast forward to today: I get to help bring one of his crown jewels onchain.
- From raw WHOIS to Web3 rails.
- From paper to programmable.
- From FTP to DomainFi.
- From locked to liquid.
It’s an honor sir, and it’s just the beginning. 🏒
What happens when a legendary domain investor tokenizes a name like hockey.com? 🏒
And what does that mean for the future of DomainFi, fractionalization, and digital real estate?
We sat down with Richard Lau & @D3inc CEO @heyheyfred to find out 👇
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Big week.
Working with @Azuki and Anime.com to shape the future of onchain identity with .ANIME.
Teaming up with OG domainers like @abcproductions, @BradenPollock, and the SoCal crew to bring DomainFi to life.
Feels like the early days again.
And Happy 10th birthday, Ethereum!
Onchain Builder Night at @D3inc HQ 🌐
From @heyheyfred to Byron Tang from @Azuki and Todd from @abcproductions, the conversations spanned DomainFi, RWAs, and how digital real estate is evolving onchain.
Big thanks to the builders and community who came through 👇
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The post everybody watching the perps market yesterday should consider .. real assets @domaprotocol @D3inc
Icon(dot)com sold for $12 million earlier this year. The 6th highest publicly reported domain sale since 2003.
The story everyone focuses on is the price. What I find more interesting is what this represents - one transaction in a 360+ million domain market where most premium assets never transact at all.
This is the broader RWA story in microcosm. Traditional assets with proven value, trapped in legacy systems that can't deliver liquidity or composability.
Real estate faces the same problem. Valuable assets, archaic transaction systems. Art, collectibles, intellectual property - all the same dynamic. High value, low liquidity, no infrastructure for fractional ownership or efficient price discovery.
Domains just happen to be the cleanest example. They're already digital, global, generating revenue., and have 30 years of legal framework through ICANN. The infrastructure exists, the value is established, the market is proven.
What's missing is the rails to make these assets behave like modern financial instruments. This isn't a domain problem. It's an RWA problem. And solving it for domains unlocks the template for everything else.
Eight-figure sales prove the asset class works. Now we build the infrastructure that makes that the norm, not the exception.
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Thrilled to announce D3's $25M Series A led by @Paradigm!
We're expanding rapidly and building out our LA presence. Grateful to have @cbventures, @sandeepnaiwal, @dharmesh, and @NamecheapCEO join us on this journey.
The DomainFi revolution is just beginning. We're hiring across all roles - come build with us! 🚀
d3.inc/careers
1/ We are proud to announce our $25M Series A led by @Paradigm, with participation from @cbventures and other strategic angels.
This highlights the support from Web2 & Web3 leaders for DomainFi, a decentralized finance layer to accelerate the growth of domains as a $340B+ real-world asset class.
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It’s funny but not funny: Domains going liquid feels weird if you’ve been holding them 20+ years like some of mine… or some domainers I know who plan to pass them down like family homes.
But that’s the point. Every market hits a moment where holding turns into building again.
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Who owns Dentist dot com? I’ve been thinking about you all morning… during my root canal 🦷 . I have a business proposition for you
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The Internet is the easiest thing to build on. Domains, DNS, and a browser. Everything else rides on top.
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Live from Toronto for @Futurist_conf! Had the pleasure of hanging with @BoredClubCanada yesterday when we announced @ApeNames on APECHAIN 🍌🦧
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$295B on Base in Q3, $333B on Solana. Both networks outpaced nations.
This proves the rails are built, now it’s time to give every wallet a real domain name.
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Excited to speak at Conviction in HCMC this week.
Vietnam is one of the few places in the world where crypto isn’t just surviving — it’s thriving. There’s clarity forming around policy, RWA adoption is accelerating, and the energy here feels like early Web1 meets early DeFi.
I’ll be sharing how D3 and Doma are bridging Web2 and Web3 through tokenized domains. Not just identity- programmable digital property at internet scale.
Day 0, but the pieces are coming together fast.
Come watch our CEO @heyheyfred take the keynote stage at @Convictionvn on Aug 9 as he shares how @domaprotocol will transform the DNS through tokenized domains as RWAs for millions of onchain users. 🌐⛓️
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Hosting a fireside with @CryptoHayes in Korea, come by!
Arthur’s one of the sharpest macro minds in crypto. Brilliant, funny (check out his Pepe substacks), doesn’t give a F#%! about norms. I’ve been learning from him for years. Also one of the most genuine and warm guys I’ve ever met in 20 years of doing business.
Should be a good one 🔥
Featured Fireside Chat with Arthur Hayes 🔥
Speakers:
🎤 @CryptoHayes CIO, @maelstromfund
🎤 @heyheyfred CEO & Co-Founder, @D3inc / @domaprotocol
Expect hot takes, bold predictions, DomainFi deep dives, and an exclusive look at what’s next for the crypto markets.
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If I can borrow against my home, I should be able to do it on my domain
Inder Singh (@InderpreetSingh), VP of Product & Technology at @D3inc, asks: What if your domain name could be collateral, fractionalized, or used in DeFi?
That’s the vision behind Doma — unlocking domain value on-chain.
#HackSeasonsConference #Web3
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Nice day at 700 S Flower. Mingled with the crew from LAPD Central Division and free Starbucks. Times have changed for me since 2000 doing business near Skid Row but these nice Captains, detectives, officers are a solid team keeping things moving in DTLA. A little less gritty than Rampart (but I still love my tacos there). They’re hiring too — come say hi. Make LA Safe Again (MLASA!)
@LAPDHQ @D3inc
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Had a stroll by the Irish Custom House here in Dublin for ICANN week.
Used to regulate ships, cargo, and taxes, now it’s just government paperwork.
But 200 years ago, this was the blockchain of trade. Domains are today’s customs house, verifying, routing, and settling value across borders.
Stablecoin over x402 next?
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Bridges connect more than cities.
Vietnam’s not just open to crypto—it’s building a home for it.
Regulators and our customers here get it. Clearer rules, real conversations, and an appetite for innovation. It feels early in the best way.
The US just called tokenization a national priority.
Real Domains like CHAT.COM and OS.AI are valuable internet assets; now programmable, composable, and federally recognized assets.
And here I am, on the Saigon River, thinking about what happens when both sides of the bridge start building toward each other.
Day 0. D3GEN
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Thanks @DomainNameWire for having me on your latest podcast to talk #DomainFi and the opportunities it unlocks for our industry! 🎙️ #tokenization #domains
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We’re not fighting over slices anymore - we’re baking a bigger pie... excited about this partnership!
Doma just hit the front page of @DefiantNews 📰
InternetX, one of Europe’s top registrars, is partnering with @d3inc to bring 22 million domains onchain.
Powered by the Doma, integrated with the DomainFi stack. Launching later this quarter.
Read on 👇
thedefiant.io/news/nfts-and-…
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“People want real world assets on chain because there’s demand for it.” —@toly at @allinsummit
Exactly right. That’s why we’re bringing domains on top chains like Solana —liquid, composable, and finally accessible in a permissionless, scalable way.
Proud to be building with @solana to unlock the next wave of DomainFi.
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Great catching up with our investor @sandeepnailwal and @0xPolygonLabs. Investor, builder, and one of the sharpest minds on what really drives Web3 retail + adoption: real products, real revenue. Forget alt-roots - real DNS domains are the future of the internet, always have been. Own and Trade the Internet.
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I love living in coastal desert… hot but no liquidity here 💦🐟
Where do you all find the most liquidity? 😂
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The financial brains behind the operations 👇
The former investment banker in me still models businesses in 10-year DCFs, not 18-month token pumps.
Domain renewals generate recurring revenue annually. That's 70%+ retention rates creating predictable cash flows.
When you tokenize that, you're not creating a speculative asset. You're creating a tradable instrument backed by predictable cash flows.
That's the difference between DomainFi and most crypto projects. We're modeling this like a massive TradFi business coming onchain, not a protocol with token incentives.
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Extremely stoked to see this awesome ape community naming themselves ahead of ApeChain launch at Apenames.com/reserve. @ApeNames for the next 100 years 🍌📣!!
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A great conversation with the @ApeComms community about AIP-395 🍌
Great to see you @AaronHaber @adventurousape @red_vulkan @SeraStargirl @g_is_us @NatalieCrue and friends
@D3inc and I can't wait to build .APE for you 🫡
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Starting in 30 min!
We’re joined by @cultra and @heyheyfred, founders of @D3inc 🔥
- The .ape domains
- ApeChain
- Digital Identity & more
Hosted by @gratefulape and me
Set Reminder:
nitter.app/i/spaces/1lPKqbbnMeYGb
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Met Alex Karp IRL CEO of @PalantirTech , true AI patriot. Some of my old team used Gotham and Metropolis back in the CIA days. When he asked what I liked most about Palantir, I said: helping thousands of gov and enterprise workers actually get work done. Respect.
Thanks @allinsummit for the intro.
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I can see clearly now ... GENIUS is signed, CLARITY’s on deck, and it’s Day 1 for crypto infra. Stablecoins have rules, and next up are the rails they run on including internet naming. @domaprotocol is building that layer
financialservices.house.gov/…
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One reason I’ve always loved real domains is we actually have a global dispute resolution process everyone agreed to as part of the "Terms".
ICANN, UDRP, WIPO, registrars — it’s baked in. In this latest case, WIPO reaffirmed what most of us already know: three-letter .coms are valuable because they’re short, scarce, and universally desirable.
No rocket science. I was just on an X Spaces yesterday with with the owner of HOCKEY dot com — six letters, one clear meaning, and no question it’s premium.
You see DomainFi’s been here for decades — we just didn’t call it that in 2005. Now we are tokenizing to bring a world of no gatekeepers, no black boxes, just open, liquid markets for real digital property.
Thanks to the good folks at @ICADomains ICA for highlighting the case. It's a good reminder we’re building on solid, proven ground.
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Microcenter I’m your bitch! Claude and GPT were dragging so bad I couldn’t take it anymore. Picked up a 5060 Ti, gonna get Ubuntu humming and run our own LLMs. New office = new excuses to tinker. Hope to make the money back in 4 months at the rate we’re spending on dumb API calls!! @D3inc lucky team in LA gets a 10X speed boost on this 5060 Ti 16GB with Blackwell
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Back in Cali. If Web3 miles, doxxed selfies, presentations, and family tradeoffs counted, I’d be the DNS Ironman. But hey, the food and team/partner time made it all worth it.
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Own and trade the internet
Strategy spent billions acquiring 640K bitcoins but they also spent $2M acquiring these:
Emma .com
Mike .com
Wisdom .com
Alert .com
Frank .com
Speaker .com
Arthur .com
Glory .com
Usher .com
Courage .com
William .com
They made 15x of the whole investment with voice .com sale.
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Looking forward to showcasing what we're working on, including a sneak peek at #GateNames 👀
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Tokenization - the market speaks. “Stocks, bonds and property.” Exciting time to be dealing with digitally native assets. DomainFi
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No matter what your views are on memes, @elonmusk , or policy, one universal view remains: this is one cute dog. #WeLoveKabosu @ownthedoge
We’re driving Doge to the forefront of future internet infrastructure! 🐶✨
Today, we’re thrilled to announce our exclusive partnership with @D3inc to apply for the .doge Top-Level Domain (TLD). This will allow Doge fans to seamlessly integrate Doge IP with core Internet infrastructure—bridging the gap between Web2 and Web3, and expanding our community!
Full press release below👇
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Very excited to have our partner and incredible entrepreneur @imlethanh98 join us this Friday 5pm UTC.
🎙️Domains & Degens Ep. 1🎙️
Join our very own @HeyHeyFred, @MxchaelHo, co-hosts @cultra & @Mannyygg together with the legendary @ImLeThanh98 & @BuildOnViction this Friday on how we’re building the new Internet together 🎧
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Out on my old man morning jog, passed this statue and couldn’t help but think… PEPPER.COM 🌶️
Some domains just stick in your head like that.
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🦧 AIP-395 VOTING IS LIVE!
Our proposal for @ApeCoin DAO is live on Snapshot.
This effort has been a long time coming and we’re thrilled to finally be here.
Vote now. Link below.
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Excited to bring Viction Names to the market. Been a year in the making with our fren and partner @imlethanh98 🤝
*VIC Name Token registrations are officially open ✨
🔗 d3.app/vic
To celebrate, we’re launching an exciting campaign for early adopters 🧵👇
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Great piece by @DomainNameWire about our .APE win with @apecoin DAO $APE and how @D3inc is creating top-level domains for web3 communities.
Thanks for having me on again Andrew!
domainnamewire.com/2024/04/1…
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Great convo with @CryptoHayes on domains coming onchain.
I’ve been reading Arthur’s blog for years, oftentimes with my kid asking me what’s with the Pepe cartoons (which are hilarious). One of the sharpest minds macro and markets, no contest. Having him at the D3 Satoshi Funhouse in BTC Vegas meant a lot.
Thanks for pulling up, Arthur.
Thanks to the GOAT @CryptoHayes stopping by @D3inc’s Satoshi Funhouse today @TheBitcoinConf and droppin knowledge with @heyheyfred 🐐🧠
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Gどま 🇯🇵
KISS always wins brother Ho. Good food, simple truths, real users. Bullish on Japan and DomainFi done the right way 🫶✌️
We kept it simple: good food, better people, honest ideas.
Co-hosted a small dinner with US/JP cross-border VC @nngcap during @WebX_Asia.
Left even more bullish on Japan’s builders, diverse users, and the future of DomainFi!
ありがとうございました 🇯🇵🙏🏻
s/o to @meidlin for the photo
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Excited to onboard the next (five) billion users to Web3. It all starts with a simple SDK that streamlines connecting the worlds of Web2 and Web3. 🙌
Introducing D3 Connect - the Universal Name Resolution SDK 🛠️
We’re making life easier for developers by making it easier to develop products and services that work across the traditional web and Web3! 🧵👇
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Thanks fam! Time to get buidling, I look forward to flexing fred.ape with BAYC 7001 🦍💪
cointelegraph.com/news/ape-c…
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Who's ready for REAL domains in web3? 🙋♂️
Had a great time at @token2049 with @gate_io @Huawei and our awesome partners
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Interesting how everyone in Web3 is taking a page out of our playbook, announcing plans to pursue gTLDs in the next ICANN round. Real domains are coming to Web3 👏
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Pump.fun just proved Liquidity loves spectacle. $600M in 12 minutes to mint memes. If you think this energy won’t bleed into real-world assets, you’re still living in the IPO era.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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