On October 7, ICANN published the full list of new internet extensions that companies, communities and projects applied for, and who applied for each one. We went live on Doma onAir to go through it with domain industry veteran Jothan Frakes and D3's Fred Hsu and Kathy Nielsen.
By Michael Ho, Co-Founder D3 Korea Blockchain Week was a packed one for us at D3: we launched Frontier, spoke at three events, met a number of our community, and had a very good dinner. Here's how the week went this year. Bridge Summit: where we opened
Frontier's first vault is live today on Solana, via Loopscale. It's the first place to put real capital behind the next generation of internet extensions, and it's live before most of the market even knows this round exists. If you haven't seen
New top-level domains rarely happen. The last time was 2012, before Ethereum shipped, before most of crypto existed at all. The next round is underway, and with Frontier, you don't need to be a domain industry insider to potentially get access to names that are part this
By Inder Singh, Chief Technology Officer, D3 Today, D3 submitted comments to ICANN on the Initial Report of the Technical Study Group on gTLD Integrations with Alternative Naming Systems. The report considers how a registry operator might connect a gTLD in the DNS with another naming system using the same
By Mark Trang, Chief Marketing Officer, D3 At Dominion 2026, the stage was set with keynotes, panels, and major announcements. But some of the most consequential moments of the conference happened not on stage, they happened at a single station tucked into the heart of the venue floor: The Genius
By Fred Hsu, CEO & Co-Founder, D3 Last year at Dominion 2025, we put a name to what we’d been building: DomainFi. We launched Doma Protocol, closed a $25M Series A, and made the case that domains could be more than static assets - liquid, programmable assets that connect
By Bob Mountain, Chief Commercial & Revenue Officer, D3 Last week I joined the global Internet community in Mumbai, India for the ICANN85 Community Forum, held from March 7-12 at the Jio World Convention Centre. ICANN meetings bring together the organizations responsible for coordinating the domain name system: registries,
We’re excited to welcome Bob Mountain as Chief Commercial & Revenue Officer at D3. Bob brings nearly two decades of experience operating at the core of the global domain aftermarket. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Global Strategic Partnerships at GoDaddy, and prior to that spent five
By Susan Lawrence (Web2 BD & Partnerships, D3) Every year at NamesCon, there is one event that truly shows how far the domain industry has come - the "Women of the Web" lunch. Back in 2010, when this event first started, we barely had a handful of women in
By Fred Hsu (CEO & Co-Founder, D3) The past few months, I went from Prague to Vegas to Vietnam, meeting with ICANN veterans, DeFi founders, and domain registrars alike. At every stop, one thing became clear: DomainFi Summer is here. We’re finally seeing alignment between markets, technology, and
By Inder Singh (VP, Product, D3) From June 30 to July 3, our team hit the ground in Cannes, France to participate in ETHCC 2025– one of Europe’s most anticipated crypto gatherings, now with a stunning Riviera twist. Builders, researchers, founders, and domain economy enthusiasts from all over came