Updates for 21-28 April '23
Solana Name Service Stats
The single emoji domains were on fire this week. Approximately 50 of them sold on the secondary market.
Twitter is Back!
Mutliple Token Registration
Welcome $BONK & $BAT
Last week we announced that SNS is now supporting multiple tokens as a payment option for domain name registration. As promised, we expanded this list with two valuable tokens.
First, $BONK was added. It is a token admired by the community and airdropped in large to Solana users in general. At first glance, this is a great option to enhance buying power of users.
Next, Brave’s Basic Attention Token (BAT) joined the club. As a result of our recent full-suite integration and partnership with Brave, it was really a no-brainer to expand the use of BAT to our Solana Name Service products.
Looking Back
Nightly & FoxWallet partnerships
Coming Soon
Additional Character Support for SNS
In the past, we have been pretty conservative adding new character support, for example, Chinese characters, to register a domain name. Specifically, because these characters can contain what we call variation selectors which can result in deceiving names. All you really need to know is that a scammer can sell a domain that looks identical to one already owned and cause confusion when transferring funds (ultimately a loss of funds too).
However, recently we’ve been revisiting the idea and have found a method to continue adding additional character support in a safe way! The first new language is coming to you next week.