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<a class="brand" href="../"><svg class="logo" viewBox="0 0 32 20" aria-hidden="true"><rect class="l1" x="1.5" y="3.5" width="17" height="13" rx="6.5" ry="6.5" fill="none" stroke-width="2.6"/><rect class="l2" x="13.5" y="3.5" width="17" height="13" rx="6.5" ry="6.5" fill="none" stroke-width="2.6"/></svg>Silent <span class="g">Mode</span></a>
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<div class="mark">🌐</div>
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<h1>The <span class="g">TLD registry</span></h1>
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<p class="tag">Every BNS name lives under a <b>top-level domain</b>. Under Silent
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Mode's per-TLD registry, each TLD is itself a certificate on the Bitcoin
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Cash chain — minted once, held in a wallet, and required to exist before
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any name under it can be registered. Browse the list, see how it works,
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verify it against the chain.</p>
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<div class="cta">
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<a class="btn acid" href="../sirius/register.html">Search a name →</a>
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<a class="btn ghost" href="#current">See current TLDs</a>
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<div class="wrap">
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<h2>What a TLD is here</h2>
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<p class="lede">A TLD (like <code>.bch</code>, <code>.x</code>, <code>.p2p</code>) is not just a
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convention. Each is a CashTokens NFT with the TLD label as its commitment,
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paying dust to a dedicated TLD-registry beacon on chain. That certificate
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is the on-chain proof the TLD exists — and, once enforcement is on, it is
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what makes any second-level name under it valid.</p>
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<ol class="steps">
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<li><b>Register the TLD first.</b> <span>An operator mints the TLD certificate. Without it, names
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under that TLD are not indexed by conforming resolvers.</span></li>
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<li><b>Then register names under it.</b> <span>Each name is a separate cert, minted through the
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registrar (<a href="../sirius/register.html">sirius/register.html</a>), and paid by the buyer to
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their own wallet.</span></li>
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<li><b>Verify against the chain.</b> <span>Anyone can walk the TLD beacon
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(<code>bchtest:qzc4c76vtw9nd49g6x8nmvc0jz62uvk4dc7hmpmerh</code> on chipnet), rebuild the list,
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and compare its cryptographic root — the tracker is a cache, not authority.</span></li>
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</ol>
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<div class="note"><b>Why this exists.</b> Without a registry, anyone could quietly declare a TLD
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against the same beacon by minting a name under it. That leaves resolvers in
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silent disagreement about what exists. Per-TLD certificates make the TLD set
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itself something the chain records, so every resolver sees the same list.
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Design: <code>Decentralized.DNS/DESIGN-tld-registry.md</code> in the project repo.</div>
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</section>
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<section id="current">
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<h2>Current TLDs (chipnet)</h2>
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<p class="lede">Fourteen TLDs are offered for public name registration on the chipnet TLD
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beacon as of 2026-08-29. The live count on the chain is the authoritative source — this table
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may lag by minutes until the beacon confirms.</p>
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<table class="tlds">
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<thead><tr><th>TLD</th><th>Category (short)</th><th>Status</th></tr></thead>
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<tbody>
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<tr><td class="tld">.bch</td> <td class="cat">56253dcfbdfbeec8…</td><td><span class="status">public</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tld">.p2p</td> <td class="cat">d9b4e56d2293a4f9…</td><td><span class="status">public</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tld">.bit</td> <td class="cat">bc51b2407b13876e…</td><td><span class="status">public</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tld">.nav</td> <td class="cat">d2191a86685fa4c9…</td><td><span class="status">public</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tld">.test</td> <td class="cat">5197632adf1f7fd3…</td><td><span class="status">public</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tld">.x</td> <td class="cat">8dc32d8fd56f863b…</td><td><span class="status">public</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tld">.asm</td> <td class="cat">58d3381435268faf…</td><td><span class="status">public</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tld">.neo</td> <td class="cat">a511e80816976e92…</td><td><span class="status">public</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tld">.gt</td> <td class="cat">249a535df4633767…</td><td><span class="status">public</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tld">.sc</td> <td class="cat">f61fc465404a3eee…</td><td><span class="status">public</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tld">.sia</td> <td class="cat">4b3fccd4076eb48c…</td><td><span class="status">public</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tld">.dex</td> <td class="cat">9b230313b823202c…</td><td><span class="status">public</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tld">.cex</td> <td class="cat">69fd93aedee3d353…</td><td><span class="status">public</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tld">.nt</td> <td class="cat">5d18221bccaab2c0…</td><td><span class="status">public</span></td></tr>
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</tbody>
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</table>
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</section>
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<section>
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<h2>Get a name under one of these</h2>
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<p class="lede">Go to <a href="../sirius/register.html">Sirius / register a name</a>. Type a label — the
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search fans out to every TLD in the registry in parallel and shows which
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are available, which are taken, and which are held off the public
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registry. Available ones mint straight into your own wallet in one
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transaction; no yearly renewal.</p>
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</section>
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<section>
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<h2>How new TLDs get added</h2>
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<p class="lede">On chipnet the operator's key can mint any TLD directly. On mainnet, a covenant
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will enforce a countersignature from that same key on every public TLD mint
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— and a USD-denominated price floor tiered by label length. This is what
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keeps someone from land-grabbing every ICANN TLD in one afternoon.</p>
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<ol class="steps">
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<li><b>Operator TREG.</b> <span>The operator's wallet mints the TLD certificate; the label goes
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into the NFT commitment, dust flows to the TLD beacon.</span></li>
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<li><b>UI opt-in.</b> <span>The TLD is added to the registrar's list. A TLD can be minted but
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intentionally omitted from the UI — the "held" pattern that keeps <code>.com</code> off
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the public registry.</span></li>
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<li><b>Snapshot republish.</b> <span>The tracker rebuilds and pushes a signed snapshot to Sia and
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Nostr so downstream clients update without walking the chain themselves.</span></li>
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</ol>
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<div class="note warn"><b>Chipnet is not mainnet.</b> The covenant that turns "operator's key" into
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something enforceable is a mainnet requirement. Until it lands, treat the chipnet TLD list as an
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operator-signed statement, not a decentralized fact.</div>
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</section>
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<h2>Verify the list against the chain</h2>
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<p class="lede">The tracker is a cache. The chain is the authority. Two independent paths, both public:</p>
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<h3>Fetch the signed snapshot from Nostr</h3>
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<p class="lede">Kind 30078 replaceable event, d-tag <code>bns-tld-list</code>, signed by the
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tracker's Nostr key. Any relay carries it; the event's <code>content</code> field carries the current
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snapshot root and the Sia URL where the full JSON lives.</p>
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<dl class="verify">
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<dt>Pubkey (x-only, hex)</dt>
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<dd>f2c925194c531c7c398017e35b2396df64a61a613aa5fadebdf1f4990f2267f4</dd>
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<dt>Relays</dt>
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<dd>wss://nos.lol · wss://relay.damus.io</dd>
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<dt>Filter (nostr-tools / rust-nostr)</dt>
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<dd>{ authors: [<pubkey>], kinds: [30078], "#d": ["bns-tld-list"] }</dd>
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</dl>
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<h3>Rebuild locally from the TLD beacon</h3>
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<p class="lede">Any electrum server that indexes the chipnet chain will return the beacon's history. Recompute
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the snapshot's canonical form (sort by TLD, JSON.stringify), sha256 it, compare — if the hash matches
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the tracker's <code>root</code>, the snapshot is a faithful summary of what the chain says.</p>
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<pre>cd Argus && node --input-type=module -e "
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import { loadWallet } from './src/lib/wallet.js';
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import { buildTldSnapshot } from './src/lib/tld-index.js';
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import { TLD_BEACON } from './src/config.js';
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const w = await loadWallet('main');
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const history = await w.provider.getHistory(TLD_BEACON);
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const txs = new Map();
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for (const {tx_hash} of history) try { txs.set(tx_hash, await w.provider.getRawTransactionObject(tx_hash)); } catch {}
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console.log(buildTldSnapshot({ history, txs }));
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process.exit(0);"</pre>
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Silent Mode — a Deviant project · <a href="/">home</a> · <a href="/sirius/">Sirius</a> · <a href="/sirius/register.html">register a name</a><br>
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