Blockchain domains on the new open internet

We've created a step-by-step guide to help you register .forever domains. You can also buy on registrars like encirca.com and gateway.io.

You can use it like any other domain; however, a .forever domain will NEVER expire. Unlike other domains, you completely control your .forever domain and no one can ever take it from you or censor your access to the domain. You can register [your family name].forever and pass it down from generation to generation.

Since .forever domains NEVER expire, you only have to pay a one-time registration fee. Also, you actually own your .forever domains (unlike other domains, which you're only allowed to rent).

All 3+ character domains (e.g., abc.forever, abcd.forever, etc.) cost $100. 2 character domains (e.g., ab.forever) cost $500, and 1 character domains (e.g., a.forever) cost $1000 (these are premium domains, which is why they're more expensive).

We created a Chromium based open source web browser called Beacon, which you can download and use to resolve .forever domains as well as all Handshake names.

.forever is a top-level domain in the Handshake root zone so you will need a Handshake resolver in order to view .forever domains. We also created Fingertip, an easy to use menu bar app to simplify this. It uses HIP-5 to delegate subdomain management to our fork of ENS.

We've actually created our own Chromium based open source web browser called Beacon, which you can download and use to resolve .forever domains as well as all Handshake names.

We have also created Fingertip, an open source menu bar app that uses hnsd (an SPV resolver daemon for the Handshake network) + Ethereum to resolve .forever domains.

An advantage of Handshake is that it doesn't require trusting Certificate Authorities (CAs) for SSL. HTTPS is done with DANE, a DNS-based authentication, which requires no trust or centralized control over SSL certificates. It is more secure than HTTPS on traditional domains because you don't have to trust CAs.

The management of .forever domains is done with a fork of ENS, which includes an implementation of EIP-1185 that allows DNS on ENS. Our contracts have been verified on Etherscan and you can view them here, or on github.

Of course! Since .forever uses DNS, you can set up a .well-known directory on your domains, using HIP-2, to publish a wallet address for your domain. An advantage of this in comparison to .eth or .crypto is that you can dynamically create a new address for each request without paying gas fees. Hooray!

Nope! We do have an ENS reverse registrar deployed, which helps to map the .forever domains you own to your Ethereum wallet address. This is so that you can easily see and manage the domains you own from the app.foreverdomains.io website or from other apps and integrations.

Yes, every .forever domain is issued as an ERC-721 token. Building on this standard makes it easier for developers to integrate with .forever domains, and it lets users manage their domain ownership from any compatible wallet, exchange, or marketplace.