Namesyour gno.land username
On gno.land you are your wallet address until you register a name. A name is readable, it is the address of a page anyone can visit, and it is the key to a corner of the chain where you can publish your own code. It takes one signature, the registry asks … for it today, and it is permanent. You pay the transaction fee either way.
Pick your name
Choose the word. The three digits are there so two people can have the same one, and the page rolls them for you.
Name rules
Every name is nym-, then 5 to 13 lowercase letters, then exactly three digits. The registry refuses seven word-openings — gl, g1, gno, atom, atone, photon and cosmos — and about ninety role words, among them admin, support and root.
Before comparing names it also treats l, 1 and i alike, and 0 and o alike, and it ignores hyphens, dots and underscores. A registered name can block yours even when the two look nothing like each other. When that happens this page names the one in the way.
What a name gets you
An address people can read. nym-balloon123 instead of forty characters, and a page at gno.land/u/nym-balloon123 that anyone can open.
A place to put your code. This is the part most people do not know. Registering a name grants that address — and only that address — the right to publish packages and realms under it, at gno.land/r/nym-balloon123/… and gno.land/p/nym-balloon123/…. Without one you publish under your raw address, which works and which nobody can read. The token this site is built on lives at gno.land/r/nym-thegnomic001/gnomic for exactly that reason.
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What it takes
- An address the chain has already seen. One that has never received anything cannot sign at all, whatever it holds. It needs some GNOT first.
- The fee for one transaction. Registering measured about 28.6 million gas units at launch — more than most calls, because the registry writes into three places at once. The page asks for a ceiling above that, and the fee is shown next to the button before you sign.
- The name itself is free. That is a governance setting, not a promise: this page reads the current price and shows it above.