.Com, .Net, .Gov. Next: .Shib?
That’s the dream, anyway, of the team behind the dog-themed Shiba Inu (SHIB) crypto ecosystem, which announced Tuesday that it plans to apply for a .shib top-level-domain (TLD) with ICANN, the nonprofit that maintains numerous aspects of the internet.
While organizations such as the Ethereum Name Service and companies like Unstoppable Domains already offer crypto users the ability to claim domain names ending like .eth or .crypto, those domains can be directed to crypto wallets—not websites accessible through any traditional browser.
Such innovations have certainly helped streamline online identities in the age of multi-dozen character wallet addresses. But no crypto-themed name—with ownership represented via an NFT—currently connects to the Domain Name System (DNS), which governs basic internet functions including website names and email addresses.
SHIB now seeks t
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