Top 10 TLD Sales of All Time, and Why @shop on Bitcoin Is Not .shop at Verisign
2 Lists:
On the left, the top 10 TLD sales of all time: .web at $135 million, .shop at $41.5 million, .bank at $30.2 million, then .loan, .online, .tech, .site, .fun, .store, .blog. Corporate buyers. ICANN-era roots. Multi-year contracts.
On the right, the Spaces explorer. @shop already registered for about 3,000 sats. @bank gone for about 10,000 sats. @loan in the tens of thousands. @web still in auction. @online, @site, @store, @blog still sitting there for anyone who would open a bid.
The point underneath was not that @shop is worth $41 million. The point was that the same words were going for dinner money on Bitcoin, and that only matters if Spaces Protocol becomes the place people actually resolve a name. This article keeps that comparison, updates it for mainnet handles, and tells you what to buy if you want adoption instead of a museum of cheap roots.
Is Bitcoin Spaces on Your Radar? Why 2025’s Explorer Walkthrough Still Matters in 2026
On January 8, 2025, block 878,349, a morning video on curious@bitcoin asked a search-shaped question: Is Bitcoin Spaces on your radar in 2025?
Fees were a few sats per vbyte. Spot was sliding off $100k. On the Spaces explorer the running burn was 0.97 BTC, one dip short of a full coin. @imagine sat in claim with about 880,000 sats locked. @ask and @hello were still taking bids.
Someone had just transferred @wine , @run , and @blur.
Two-digit numbers were rolling. Punycode emoji strings sat in the queue like a joke that might not be a joke.
That clip is an artifact of the auction-only era. Handles were still a promise. Nacho was not the default door.
If Bitcoin already holds the money, the next thing people will type into Google is whether it can hold a name.
Bitcoin Domains? Why Spaces Protocol Treats @gaming Like a Root, Not a JPEG
On January 7, 2025 the curious@bitcoin channel titled a video the question every Bitcoiner eventually types into a search bar: Bitcoin domains?
Fees were a few sats per vbyte. Price was knocking on $100k. The Spaces explorer showed live auctions that looked like a domain aftermarket with worse fonts and better finality: @gaming climbing through hundreds of thousands of sats, @ask and @hello over a million, @nfl cheap enough to feel like a mistake, a cat punycode drawing a stupid amount of coin, and a row of xn-- strings waiting to be decoded into emoji.
The host said the protocol might be a scam. He also said .io sold for tens of millions in the old world and that @ask reminded him of Ask Jeeves. Both instincts belong in the same post. Naming on Bitcoin is either the next obvious layer after sound money, or it is Runes with punctuation.
Spaces Protocol is the attempt to make it the first thing. This piece takes that explorer session seriously, updates it for mainnet handles, and tells you what to do if you want a name that is not a GoDaddy invoice.
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Names Just Landed on Bitcoin
https://youtu.be/DZZ4INKBUrQ
#Bitcoin #Naming #BitcoinUX #BitcoinUI
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What Bitcoin Did for Money, Spaces Does for Naming
https://youtu.be/y7b776A_wyU
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He put usernames on Bitcoin.
Not a website. Not a token.
you@bitcoin, anchored to the chain.
Nobody can take it away. https://youtu.be/bgwz76ffwSY
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TABCONF Workshop | Spaces Protocol intro
https://youtu.be/GKuWDWAkObQ
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They Handed Out Bitcoin Names in Atlanta
https://youtu.be/TbBNZjURdts
#Bitcoin #ATLBitlab #Atlanta #SpacesProtocol #BitcoinNames
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Stop Sending Money to a 62-Character Address
https://youtu.be/iefeiBY3X0U
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Top 10 TLD Sales of All Time, and Why @shop on Bitcoin Is Not .shop at Verisign
2 Lists:
On the left, the top 10 TLD sales of all time: .web at $135 million, .shop at $41.5 million, .bank at $30.2 million, then .loan, .online, .tech, .site, .fun, .store, .blog. Corporate buyers. ICANN-era roots. Multi-year contracts.
On the right, the Spaces explorer. @shop already registered for about 3,000 sats. @bank gone for about 10,000 sats. @loan in the tens of thousands. @web still in auction. @online, @site, @store, @blog still sitting there for anyone who would open a bid.
The point underneath was not that @shop is worth $41 million. The point was that the same words were going for dinner money on Bitcoin, and that only matters if Spaces Protocol becomes the place people actually resolve a name. This article keeps that comparison, updates it for mainnet handles, and tells you what to buy if you want adoption instead of a museum of cheap roots.
What those million-dollar TLD sales actually bought bitbane.com/top-10-tld-sales-of-all-time-and-why-s…
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Is Bitcoin Spaces on Your Radar? Why 2025’s Explorer Walkthrough Still Matters in 2026
On January 8, 2025, block 878,349, a morning video on curious@bitcoin asked a search-shaped question: Is Bitcoin Spaces on your radar in 2025?
Fees were a few sats per vbyte. Spot was sliding off $100k. On the Spaces explorer the running burn was 0.97 BTC, one dip short of a full coin.
@imagine
sat in claim with about 880,000 sats locked.
@ask
and
@hello
were still taking bids.
Someone had just transferred
@wine
,
@run
, and @blur.
Two-digit numbers were rolling. Punycode emoji strings sat in the queue like a joke that might not be a joke.
That clip is an artifact of the auction-only era. Handles were still a promise. Nacho was not the default door.
If Bitcoin already holds the money, the next thing people will type into Google is whether it can hold a name.
👉bitbane.com/is-bitcoin-spaces-on-your-radar-why-20…
#Bitcoin #BitcoinNaming #SpacesProtocol #BitcoinBids
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curious@bitcoin
Why the Clarity Act Died
https://youtu.be/Zy1r5cX5rw0
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Bitcoin Domains? Why Spaces Protocol Treats @gaming Like a Root, Not a JPEG
On January 7, 2025 the curious@bitcoin channel titled a video the question every Bitcoiner eventually types into a search bar: Bitcoin domains?
Fees were a few sats per vbyte. Price was knocking on $100k. The Spaces explorer showed live auctions that looked like a domain aftermarket with worse fonts and better finality: @gaming climbing through hundreds of thousands of sats, @ask and @hello over a million, @nfl cheap enough to feel like a mistake, a cat punycode drawing a stupid amount of coin, and a row of xn-- strings waiting to be decoded into emoji.
The host said the protocol might be a scam. He also said .io sold for tens of millions in the old world and that @ask reminded him of Ask Jeeves. Both instincts belong in the same post. Naming on Bitcoin is either the next obvious layer after sound money, or it is Runes with punctuation.
Spaces Protocol is the attempt to make it the first thing. This piece takes that explorer session seriously, updates it for mainnet handles, and tells you what to do if you want a name that is not a GoDaddy invoice.
bitbane.com/bitcoin-domains-why-spaces-protocol-tr…
#Bitcoin #SpacesProtocol #BitcoinNames #BitcoinDomains #youbitcoin #Nacho #Nostr #SelfCustody #BitcoinIdentity #SovereignNames
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