Freename Domains Q&A

A TLD doing something we had not seen before. Shaka is a B2B onchain payment router, live on Ethereum, for professionals who close deals. No chargebacks, no SWIFT delays, no sending a wallet address to a client. The payment splits itself between the parties, onchain. That last part is where it gets interesting for us. A split running on 42-character addresses nobody can read is a split nobody can check. Shaka resolves Freename names natively. Not only .shaka: every Freename namespace works inside it. And .shaka is both the proof of concept and the namesake of the protocol it powers, because Kooky (@kookysurf), who built Shaka, is its first holder. kooky.shaka is live today, resolving to his wallet on every deal he creates. The integration is not the interesting part. The position is. Those names are the layer the product runs on, and the TLD owner owns that layer outright. See it resolve: https://shaka.deal/domains/shaka

Five AI era TLDs, open to buy this week. .finetune .pretrain .agentops .embeddings .inference From $399. Every domain registered under one of them pays the owner 50%, forever. Not a first year rate, not a promo window. Why these five, now: the Domain Standard issue out this week argues that AI is not the end of domains, it is what creates more of them. Every agent, every model, every tool still needs a name someone can trust. These sit directly under that argument. Which one would you build on?

Issue 05 of The Domain Standard is available now. One year of the magazine. The anniversary issue is about domains in the age of AI: what happens to names when AI writes, builds and browses for us. Inside: Michael Law on the .AI boom, Michaela Cruden on the agentic web, Lars Jensen calling AI rocket fuel for the industry, Simone Catania on the invisible registrar, the Q1 2026 aftermarket analysis, and a Who's Who of the people who built this business. This issue of The Domain Standard would not have been possible without the support of our partners: Nicky.me, .Art, and the Global Domain Report 2026 by InterNetX. Full interview: https://youtu.be/oABvoGDwCRE Read it or download the PDF, free and no sign up: https://freename.com/domain-standard

Following up on Shaka, the onchain payment router built by @kookysurf, because there is something in it for you. Any TLD owner can list their own TLD there, as long as it is business related. Your extension ends up where professionals close deals and move money, and it resolves natively in the flow. Shaka also runs white-label: your domain, your logo, your brand. A namespace you own stops being a label on a product and becomes the address the product answers at. And it pays 1% to whoever brings the deal, same day, on top of their usual commission. Paid for the connection you provide, not only for the work you do. Same idea this registry runs on: every name under your TLD pays you 50%, for as long as it exists. That is the difference between a TLD you hold and a TLD in use. One is worth what someone will pay for it. The other is worth what runs through it. List yours: https://shaka.deal/domains/all/ Which of your TLDs belongs in a payment flow?

The 85% campaign starts today. How it works: • Buy any one-letter or two-letter TLD between today and September 30. • Every domain registered under it pays you 85% of the royalties, for life. The standard rate is 50%. • The split is automatic: nothing to operate, nothing to renew. • 62 extensions exist, 22 single letters and 40 pairs. Once one is gone, it is gone. • Code AUGUST50 takes 50% off until August 31. First come, first served.

Every one and two-letter TLD in existence, on one map: 22 letters, 40 pairs. These are the ones still available today. Each one pays its owner 85% of the royalties, for life. When a tile goes, it goes. 50% off with code AUGUST50 until August 31. Pick your tile. First come, first served.