Web3 domains · from $5 · no renewal fees
Get your own.gif domain
The internet's most-shared file format is now a name you can own. Yours forever, on-chain, with zero renewal fees.
- Own it forever
- No renewal fees
- Works as your wallet
Loop forever. One name. Every wallet, site and inbox you'll ever own.
Why .gif
A .gif domain is a Web3 top-level domain minted on-chain. Here is what you actually get for it.
Forever yours
You mint it to your wallet. No registrar can reclaim it, no annual invoice can lapse it.
No renewal fees
Pay once. A .com costs you roughly $15 every single year — forever. A .gif costs you nothing after day one.
Your wallet, readable
Replace 0x71C7…9F2d with yourname.gif. Send and receive crypto without pasting 42 characters.
A name people remember
GIF is the shorthand of internet culture. If you make things that move — motion, video, memes, animation — the extension does half your positioning for you.
Email and a site, included
Freename gives every domain decentralised email and a website builder. It is a name and a home, not just a token.
Sold by an ICANN-accredited registrar
Freename Limited is an ICANN-accredited registrar for traditional DNS domains (IANA ID 4323). .gif is a Web3 name on their platform — not an ICANN root TLD — but you buy it from a company held to that same accreditation standard.
Emoji and unicode welcome
🔥.gif is a legal domain here. Web2 registrars will not let you do that.
An asset, not a rental
It is an NFT. You can hold it, transfer it, or resell it on the aftermarket. Try that with a leased .com.
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Names already claimed, and the kind of thing that's still open.
- Used as an NFT identityBoredApe.gif
- Used as an NFT identityHamsterDance.gif
- Used as an NFT identityThe-Dancing-Baby.gif
- Used as a crypto wallet addressPixelperfectmoe.gif
- Used as a crypto wallet addressMyWallet.gif
- Used as an NFT identityNyanCat.gif
- Used as a crypto wallet addressRickroll.gif
- Used as an NFT identityDancingBanana.gif
- Used as a crypto wallet address🥞PancakeSwap.gif
- Used as a social handleThatWouldBeGreat.gif
- Used as a crypto wallet addressDoge.gif
- Used as a crypto wallet addressSendMeMoney.gif
- Used as an NFT identityBeyonce.gif
- Used as a crypto wallet addressBitcoin.gif
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Short answers to the things everyone asks.
A .gif domain is a Web3 domain name minted on a blockchain rather than registered through the traditional DNS system. You buy it once through Freename, mint it to your crypto wallet, and own it permanently as an NFT with no renewal fees.
Web3 domains on Freename start from around $5 and are a one-time payment — there are no annual renewal fees. Short, common and premium names cost more, in the same way a short .com costs more. Check live pricing on Freename before you buy.
Three things work right now: use it as a human-readable crypto wallet address instead of a long 0x string, use it for decentralised email, and publish a decentralised website through Freename's builder. It also functions as a portable identity across supporting wallets and apps.
Not by default. Web3 domains need a browser extension, a Web3-aware browser like Brave or Opera, or a gateway to resolve — this is true of every Web3 domain, including .eth and .crypto. Wallet resolution, by contrast, works natively in most major wallets.
Once minted, the domain is an NFT held in your wallet. No registrar, company or registry can revoke, suspend or repossess it, and no unpaid invoice can cause it to expire. You can transfer or sell it exactly like any other on-chain asset.
Yes. Freename Limited is listed by ICANN as an accredited registrar (IANA ID 4323), which covers registration of traditional DNS domains such as .com. That is separate from .gif: .gif is a Web3 domain on Freename's platform, not an ICANN root TLD. You still buy it through the same ICANN-accredited company.
It is minted to your wallet, on the chain you choose. Freename supports minting across several chains including Ethereum, Polygon, BNB Chain, Cronos and Aurora; gas costs differ, so Polygon is usually the cheapest option.
Yes. Web3 domains accept emoji and unicode characters, so 🔥.gif or 🐸meme.gif are valid names. Traditional registrars generally do not allow this, which makes short emoji names a genuinely scarce category.
Motion designers, animators, video editors, meme accounts, streamers and NFT projects — anyone whose work moves. It is also bought as a collectible, because .gif is one of the most recognisable extensions on the internet and the good names are finite.
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