.Com, .Net, .Gov. Next: .Shib?
After all, that’s the dream of the team that runs the dog-themed Shiba Inu (SHIB) cryptocurrency ecosystem. SHIB announced Tuesday that it plans to apply for the .shib top-level domain (TLD) with ICANN, a nonprofit organization that maintains numerous domains. aspects of the internet.
In organizations like Ethereum Name Service And the same company An unstoppable domain It already offers cryptocurrency users the ability to require domain names ending in .eth or .crypto, so that those domains can lead to cryptocurrency wallets rather than websites that can be accessed through traditional browsers.
These innovations have certainly helped streamline online identity in an age of dozens of text wallet addresses. However, crypto theme names whose ownership is represented through NFTs are not currently connected to the Domain Name System (DNS), which governs basic Internet functions including website names and email addresses.
SHIB is now trying to change that and become the first cryptocurrency domain to penetrate the mainstream internet. To this end, the ecosystem has partnered with digital infrastructure provider D3 Global to make Shiba Inu’s TLD application as attractive as possible.
“Our partnership with D3 allows us to expand outside of the existing #ShibArmy and give more than 5 billion internet users direct access to the SHIB ecosystem,” Shytoshi Kusama, lead developer at Shiba Inu, said in a statement. “Bringing real-world domains to SHIB is a big deal. It expands our vision for digital identities within a decentralized ecosystem while also driving long-term monetization within the ecosystem.”
It will be quite some time before SHIB knows whether its application will be successful. The last time ICANN opened applications for new top-level domains was in 2012. .xyz and .app (technically referring to the Caribbean island of Anguilla, .ai was the application cycle that saw the emergence of tech hot domains like .ai since 1995). Recently announced, the organization’s next TLD application cycle will begin in spring 2026.
It may take several more years after that date for the SHIB domain to gain approval and implementation, but results are not guaranteed. Nonetheless, Shiba Inu is already allowing users to sign up. early access Join our theoretical service and request a .shib name.
But if the Shiba Inu (eventually) gets this right, the feat will be a huge boost to the growing cryptocurrency ecosystem of Ethereum tokens. 6 billion dollars MEMCOIN SHIB, a layer 2 blockchain, Sybariumand (currently cryptocurrency only) naming service. This will functionally integrate Web3 systems with an online organization’s existing systems, and in doing so, Shiba Inu hopes, will rapidly accelerate the widespread adoption of Web3 identities.
Editor: Andrew Hayward