Home for decentralized domain names on the Bitcoin Cash chain. Names - that live as CashTokens certificates in a wallet you control, discovered - through a public beacon address any electrum server can read. No registrar, - no ICANN, no DNS root — resolvers read the chain directly. Named for the - brightest star: a fixed reference everyone sees the same way.
+Sirius is Silent Mode's decentralized domain registry. + Register a name without an account, without KYC, without renewal fees — one + on-chain transaction, pay once with crypto, keep forever in a wallet you + control. No registrar, no ICANN, no DNS root. Resolvers read the chain + directly. You can even register your own TLD and sell names under it.
Short version — the full breakdown across GoDaddy, Namecheap, + Cloudflare, ENS, Unstoppable Domains, and Handshake lives on the + comparison page.
| What you get | Ordinary registrar | Sirius |
|---|---|---|
| How ownership is proven | @@ -261,6 +335,64 @@
On chipnet (the live test network today) the cost is a few test coins — effectively free, used for development. On mainnet, each TLD owner sets their own price in USD on-chain, typically $25 – $500 one-time for a brand-new name under one of the live TLDs (.x, .bch, .p2p, .deviant, .bit, .nav, .test, .coin, .cash). You pay once and keep the name forever — there is no annual renewal.
No. Sirius has no account system, no email signup, no phone verification, no address or payment card. You pay the on-chain fee from a Bitcoin Cash wallet (built-in web wallet, Cashonize, Paytaca, or any WizardConnect-compatible wallet), and the name's ownership certificate lands directly in that wallet. Nothing about who you are is attached to the name.
+No. The ownership certificate is a CashTokens NFT that only the private key in your wallet can move. Silent Mode cannot revoke it, ICANN has no jurisdiction over it, no registrar sits between you and the name, and no court order to a company can produce one. The only way the name changes hands is you signing a transaction yourself — or the mainnet BNS2 lifecycle naturally expiring if you let it.
+Yes — Sirius is one of the only registries where anyone can mint a top-level domain. Any wallet can register a new TLD by paying the TLD-registry fee; you then own that TLD as an on-chain certificate, set its policy (public, co-sign-approval, or private), set its own name-registration price, and earn the per-name revenue every time someone registers a name under it. See the TLD registry docs.
+Not on today's BNS1 chipnet build — a name is yours until the certificate NFT in your wallet moves. The mainnet BNS2 build will introduce an optional lifecycle so abandoned names can be reclaimed, but owners pay only when the name is first minted; there is no yearly renewal to GoDaddy or anyone else.
+Yes. Any Sirius name can be listed on the built-in marketplace in one on-chain transaction with no escrow: you sign a partial transaction that pays you when a buyer completes it. Prices can be fixed or USD-pegged. See the Sirius.X marketplace.
+Three options, all pointed to by on-chain records on the name itself: inline HTML (h record — the whole page lives in the Bitcoin Cash transaction), a free Sia bucket (s3 record — Silent Mode's Pithos.X gateway hosts a starter quota per name), or your own server (ip + tls records — the TLS certificate's SHA-256 is pinned on-chain, no CA required). The resolver picks whichever is set.
The built-in browser wallet on Sirius.X (PBKDF2 + AES-GCM, keys stay in your browser), any WizardConnect-compatible wallet including Cashonize and Paytaca, or CashConnect for direct connection. All three paths mint the certificate NFT straight to a key you control — nothing is custodial at any point.
+Sirius runs on Bitcoin Cash — the same chain that already settles the payment, no separate token to buy, no bridge, no Layer 2. Names are CashTokens NFTs you hold in your own wallet (no smart-contract custody). Resolution is one electrum query against a public beacon address — any device can be a resolver, no gateway required. And anyone can mint their own TLD, not just a fixed set defined at launch.
+Yes, two ways. Zero-install: open any name through navigate.st, the public gateway that reads the chain for you. Local, trustless: install the Theseus Navigator (Chromium-based, speaks .bch natively) or the Ariadne Resolver system-wide service, and any browser on your machine opens Sirius names directly.
A plain comparison across the dimensions that actually matter when + picking a registrar: price (now and in ten years), what you had to hand over to get + the name, who can take it back, whether it renews, and what you can host behind it. + No marketing superlatives — every row is a verifiable fact about how each service + works today.
+ +| What you get | +GoDaddy / Namecheap | +Cloudflare Registrar | +ENS (Ethereum) | +Unstoppable Domains | +Handshake (HNS) | +Sirius.X | +
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First-year price | +$8–$30 (.com), promos lower | +Wholesale cost (~$9 .com) | +$5–$640/year by name length | +$5–$100+ one-time | +Auction price (variable) | +$25–$500 one-time (per TLD) | +
| Annual renewal | +$12–$30/year, forever | +~Wholesale cost each year | +Yearly, same tier | +None | +None (one bid at auction) | +None on BNS1; BNS2 adds optional lifecycle | +
| KYC / identity | +Email, phone, address, card | +Cloudflare account | +Ethereum address + ETH to pay gas | +Email + card (or crypto) | +HNS address | +None — a wallet is all you need | +
| Payment | +Card, PayPal | +Card | +ETH + gas fees | +Card, crypto | +HNS coins | +BCH (on-chain fee only) | +
| Ownership proof | +Row in registrar's SQL database | +Row in Cloudflare's database | +ERC-721 token in a smart contract | +ERC-721 token, bridged | +UTXO on HNS chain | +CashTokens NFT in your own wallet | +
| Who can revoke | +Registrar, registry, ICANN, court order | +Cloudflare, ICANN, court order | +Nobody (smart contract immutable) | +Smart-contract admin keys exist | +Nobody (chain-enforced) | +Nobody — the NFT lives in your wallet | +
| Custom TLDs | +No (ICANN monopoly) | +No | +No (locked to .eth) | +Fixed list by Unstoppable | +Yes (auction a name) | +Yes — anyone can mint & sell a TLD | +
| Resolution path | +ICANN → TLD registry → nameservers → DNS | +Same as GoDaddy | +Smart-contract call via Infura/Alchemy | +Proprietary gateway + partial on-chain | +HNS resolver / HSD | +Any electrum server reads chain + public beacon | +
| Browser support | +Universal (ICANN DNS) | +Universal | +MetaMask or gateway | +Gateway or extension | +Resolver required | +Native in Theseus / Ariadne; gateway for every other browser via navigate.st | +
| What you can host | +Hosting provider you contract with | +Any provider you contract with | +IPFS hash in a text record | +IPFS hash | +IP + DNS records | +Inline HTML on-chain, free Sia bucket, or your own IP with TLS pinned on-chain | +
| Resale | +Transfer via registrar fees + lock | +Transfer in-platform | +OpenSea, Uniswap | +Secondary market in-app | +On-chain | +Built-in marketplace, one tx, no escrow | +
Nothing is best at everything. The honest tradeoffs:
+ +.com because every email client and link preview knows it.The headline price is the first-year number. The real cost is what + you pay to keep the name in year ten. Taking a $20/year midrange name as the + baseline:
+ +| Years | GoDaddy / Namecheap | ENS (.eth, 5-char) | Unstoppable | Sirius.X |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | $20 | $5 + gas (~$20 total) | $40 one-time | $25–$500 one-time (TLD-set) |
| Year 5 | $100 | $25 + 5× gas (~$75) | $40 total | Same one-time payment |
| Year 10 | $200 | ~$150 (if gas stays flat) | $40 total | Same one-time payment |
Over 10 years a typical ICANN name costs 10× what a Sirius name costs — and the + Sirius name is still yours even if Silent Mode disappears, because the certificate + lives in your wallet, not on our server.
+Open Sirius.X, type a label, see every TLD it + could live under in one view. Register in a single transaction — chipnet today + (free test coins), mainnet when BNS2 lands.
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