The Good Tech Companies - Doma Protocol Launches Names Marketplace on Base to Bring Over 40 Million Domains Onchain

Episode Date: December 18, 2025

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/doma-protocol-launches-names-marketplace-on-base-to-bring-over-40-million-domains-onchain. ... Check more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3. You can also check exclusive content about #web3, #dns-protection, #btcwire, #chainwire, #press-release, #blockchain-development, #crypto-exchange, #good-company, and more. This story was written by: @btcwire. Learn more about this writer by checking @btcwire's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Doma Protocol, the world’s leading DNS-compliant blockchain to tokenize the internet, today announced the launch of the Doma Names Marketplace on the Base app. Doma enables instant trading, fractional ownership, liquidity pools, and cross-chain bridging. Every DNS domain on Doma remains fully DNS-Compliant, meaning it works exactly like a traditional .com or .ai domain.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This audio is presented by Hacker Noon, where anyone can learn anything about any technology. DOMA Protocol launches Names Marketplace on base to bring over 40 million domains on-chain by BTC Wire. San Francisco, California, December 18th 2025 DOMA Protocol, the world's leading DNS-compliant blockchain to tokenize the internet, today announced the launch of the DOMA names marketplace on the base app. Earlier this week in San Francisco, Coinbase announced the general availability of the base app and everything app that brings together social, trading, payments, app discovery, and earning into one place. The DOMA names marketplace embeds domain discovery and trading directly into the base ecosystem, letting users browse premium domains, purchase instantly with USDC or ED, and manage portfolios without leaving the base ab. The integration between DOMA and base marks a pivotal
Starting point is 00:00:53 moment in domain FI, tokenizing real-world internet infrastructure and making DNS domains programmable assets across Web 3. DoMAINFI meets distribution DOMA protocol transforms DNS domains, the $360 billion backbone of the internet, in totokinized, tradable assets with defy primitives. Modernizing in illiquid domain industry, DOMA enables instant trading, fractional ownership, liquidity pools, and cross-chain bridging. Every DNS domain on DOMA remains fully DNS-compliant, meaning it works exactly like a traditional comm or i Domain while unlocking programmable functionality on chain. The base app integration represents DOMA's first major consumer distribution channel. The DOMA names marketplace will bring over 40 million DNS domains in chain from ICANN
Starting point is 00:01:44 accredited registrars to the base app experience, enabling discovery, trading, and management of traditional internet domains for baseousers. Greater than, domains are the original digital asset class. They've always been been greater than decentralized, scarce, and transferable, said Fred Schu, CEO and co-founder of Greater Than D3 Global. Now they're programmable. Launching inside the base app will put greater than millions of domains at the fingertips of one of the largest crypto user greater than communities in the world. This is infrastructure meeting distribution. Domains greater than have been trapped in a largely illiquid market. Now they're native assets on greater than base accessible to anyone.
Starting point is 00:02:23 Registrar infrastructure meets on-chain distribution. The launch is powered by strategic partnerships with major domain registrars who are onboarding their portfolios onto DOMA protocol, unlocking new distribution channels and revenue streams through tokenization. InternetEx, a leading European cloud and hosting provider, manages 22M plus activey domains and 24M plus premium listings across 30,000 global partners and serves as Thanker partner for the base app launch. InternetEx's infrastructure integration enables instant on-chain minting of domains from their portfolio, with DNS records remaining fully operational and ICANN-compatible. Greater than, bringing InternetEx's domain portfolio on-chain through DOMA opens entirely new
Starting point is 00:03:06 greater-than-markets for our infrastructure, said Elias Rendon Banger, CEO of InternetEx. Greater than, the DOMA names marketplace on base gives us direct access to a massive greater-than-Web3 native audience actively looking for digital assets. We're not just greater than listing domains. We're making millions of internet domains tradable as assets greater than to millions of new potential buyers. Additional registrar partners including nicknames, InSERCA, RumaWeb, Connect Recellar, and Interstellar are also integrating with DOMA protocol and making their domains accessible through the marketplace. These registrars gain exposure to a new buyer demographic, crypto traders and web 3 builders, while maintaining full control over DNS infrastructure.
Starting point is 00:03:51 For registrars, DOMA acts as an integrate 1, distribute everywhere, layer. Domains remain registered through traditional DNS infrastructure but GA and tokenized representations that can be traded, collateralized, or bridged across chains. Discovery and settlement happens on-chain while DOMA orchestrates registrar updates through purpose-built APIs. It's infrastructure for Domain FI, enabling Web 2 domain supply to meet Web 3 users where they're at scale. The Marketplace launch follows DOMA's main at debut in November 2025 and a $25M-Series A led by Paradigm earlier in the year. Coinbase Ventures is an investor in D3 Global, a core contributor to DOMA Protocol.
Starting point is 00:04:33 The DOMA names marketplace is live today at base, DOMA, XYZ and from within the base app, DOMA Protocol is the world's leading DNS-compliant blockchain for domain FI, tokenizing 371M-plus domains as real-world assets, RWA's, to transform the $360-B-Domain industry. Developed with contributions from D3 Global, DOMA enables cross-chain interoperability between existing Web 2 domains. Com, XYZ, I, and Future Web 3 extensions, Saul, Avax, APE, powering a global economy,
Starting point is 00:05:09 for fractional ownership, lending, and defy utility. With open APIs, SDKs, and developer programs like DOMA Forge, DOMA protocol empowers developers and investors to transform how domains are owned, used, and traded across the internet, marketplaces, and Web3 wallets. Learn more at DOMA X, Y, Z, about D3GLOBALD3 Global is building the world's leading domain FI network to tokenize 371M plus existing and future domains as real-world assets. D3 unlocks the financial potential of domains by building on DOMA protocol, a decentralized blockchain infrastructure that bridges traditional internet domains.
Starting point is 00:05:50 Com, net, I, and org, and future domain extensions from the Web 3 world, Saul, Avax, Sheeb, and Ape, backed by paradigm, the D3 team consists of industry veterans with over three decades of collective experience, known for leading domain name monetization, internet protocols, various TLD operations including XYZ, Inc. TV and Link. Learn more about D3 at D3.com and Doma at Doma. XYZ. Social contacts. Twitter, Discord, linked in this story was published as a press release by BTCYR under Hackernoon Business Blogging Program. Do your own research before making any financial decision. Thank you for listening to this Hackernoon story, read by artificial intelligence. Visit hackernoon.com to read, write, learn and publish.

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