Please don’t read that wrongly. I am not the owner of Unstoppable Domains. Unstoppable Domains’ CEO and Co-founder is Matthew Gould. I am merely the owner of my own .crypto domain bought from Unstoppable Domains that lives on the Ethereum blockchain.
Which means to say, I am the proud owner of richardtan.crypto.
But, what does it all mean?
Glad you asked.
What is Unstoppable Domains?
Unstoppable Domains is a service provider for blockchain domains. Currently, their domain registry resides on the Ethereum blockchain. As with a website, you can purchase a domain (richardtan.crypto in my case), and then claim it as your immutable asset on the blockchain. Your blockchain domain is stored in your wallet, just like your crypto. And no one can take it away.
But wait, there’s more.
It’s not simply a domain registry provider. when you purchase and claim a .crypto domain, you’re essentially creating a human readable wallet, from which you can do pretty much anything. (Well, that’s a future vision).
What can you do with Unstoppable Domains?
Well, your very first step should be to buy your own .crypto domain. Once you have bought and claimed it to your ETH address, that’s where the fun begins. But first, in order to do that, you should already have your own cryptocurrency wallets, and a metamask account with some ETH in it for the transactions.
Human readable crypto payments
So, right now, whenever we need to send crypto to another person or another wallet, we need to make sure we copy that super long wallet address. There’s fears of manipulation or copying an address by mistake. With a .crypto domain, it takes away that extra uncertainty.
If you’re sending bitcoin (yes please) to richardtan.crypto, you know it’s me very instinctively. That’s not all. You can link multiple currencies like BTC, ETH, LTC, XRP, all onto richardtan.crypto, and don’t have to worry about sending the wrong currency to the wrong address. It all resolves to the domain.
How awesome is that?
Hosting your own decentralised website
Just like with finances, we want everything decentralised and indestructable! And that includes our website goddammit!
Send and receive emails
Yes, you can send and receive emails via your unstoppable domain too. I just had to test it out, so I sent an email from my unstoppable domain to my gmail and back. Cool.
Chat with others using decentralised technology
You can also chat with other people using your .crypto domain as your identifier, so that people can easily authenticate that they are chatting with the real Richard.
The email and chat products are relatively new, and I’m sure as the technology evolves and matures and onboards more development, we’ll see a lot more applications coming to whoever owns an unstoppable domain.
You can purchase your own .crypto domain for a one-time USD$40 payment.
If you’d also like to have your own unstoppable domain, use the link and get $10 off your purchase.