From 6b6b2eaa40c005e6ff01dd88b518545eecd96eb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Nathan.Woodburn/" Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 10:15:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] docs: update reserved_names --- reserved_names.md | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/reserved_names.md b/reserved_names.md index 0eb0308..e7276a0 100644 --- a/reserved_names.md +++ b/reserved_names.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ title: Reserved names description: published: 1 -date: 2024-02-09T05:42:01.227Z +date: 2024-09-11T10:15:26.234Z tags: editor: markdown dateCreated: 2024-02-09T05:42:01.227Z @@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ dateCreated: 2024-02-09T05:42:01.227Z Existing TLDs and over 100,000 Alexa websites are reserved on the Handshake blockchain. Upon removing collisions, generic, and exclusions (e.g. 1 or 2 character names), approximately 80,000 names remain. Using the root key and DNSSEC, domain owners can cryptographically prove ownership to the Handshake blockchain to claim names. 100,000 was chosen as a number which the ownership is clear and has already gone through policy and process. +## End of the claims + +Reserved domains were able to be claimed for 4 years after the launch of Handshake. This deadline has passed. Rather than let all the domains be registered by anyone after this deadline passed (how the original code was written), Handshake did a soft fork to stop the top 10,000 domains from being registered. If any of these 10,000 domains want to be claimed, Handshake will need to do a hard fork to re-enable claims. + ## Existing TLDs All existing [ICANN TLDs](https://github.com/handshake-org/hs-names/blob/master/names/tld.json) ([ccTLDs](https://github.com/handshake-org/hs-names/blob/master/names/cctld.json), [gTLDS](https://github.com/handshake-org/hs-names/blob/master/names/gtld.json), [rTLD](https://github.com/handshake-org/hs-names/blob/master/names/rtld.json)) are reserved and can't be opened at auction.