news Namebase has been acquired by Namecheap

[jamesau]

It had been rumoured for a few months, but has now been confirmed:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1493287050254106624

For those unfamiliar, Namebase is the largest centralized service offering Handshake domains.

Namecheap has recently been promoting their own Handshake TLDs.

 

[Keith]

My best handshake domain -

EV

 

[aoxborrow]

Whoa. Will be interesting to see Namecheap walk the line between the world's 2nd largest ICANN registrar and advancing adoption of the HNS root zone. I think they are fundamentally incompatible world views. You can't say ICANN should have authority to regulate TLDs but here's 100,000 more.

 

[erwin.groen]

It’ll be interesting how things will pan out.
Seems positive from a $hns funding standpoint (handshake being non for profit)

 

[Mifuru]

For the future, Namebase is a regular registrar of "own zones" based on its own DNS resolvers that do not work on the usual Internet. He does not work on the basis of the blockchain, but only offers to buy his own zone based on their resolvers (based on PowerDNS) for his candy wrappers.

I do not advise you to make this news an event or a holiday for the domain market.

Sources:
https://hdns.io/
https://www.shodan.io/host/103.196.38.38

 

[Keith]

Namebase.io is possibly the worst platform in existence. Terrible in every way