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D3 International raises M to modernize web domains
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D3 International raises $25M to modernize web domains

Last updated: January 29, 2025 6:17 pm
Editorial Board Published January 29, 2025
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D3 International, the a decentralized area identify firm, has raised $25 million to modernize the way in which that web domains function.

D3 is constructing what it calls the world’s first DomainFi community on the Doma Protocol, a brand new blockchain that transforms current and future domains into a contemporary type of digital actual property. By asserting the launch of Doma Protocol, D3 goals to unlock new liquidity, innovation, and monetary alternatives for the web area business in addition to main crypto communities. 

D3’s DomainFi community will provide individuals substantial advantages akin to asset appreciation, fractional possession, domain-based lending, and enhanced digital id and branding.

“Internet domains have long been a valuable asset class,” mentioned Fred Hsu, CEO of D3, in a press release. “And for the first time in nearly three decades, we have the opportunity to modernize and transform the technologies and processes currently used by the domain industry through the Doma Protocol. The DomainFi economy will usher in a new era of innovation and financial opportunity as every domain, community, and user comes on-chain.” 

The DomainFi infrastructure chief mentioned Paradigm led the spherical with different traders together with Coinbase Ventures, Sandeep Naiwhal, co-founder of Polygon Labs, Dharmesh Shah, the founding father of HubSpot, and Richard Kirkendall, CEO of Namecheap.

The corporate mentioned it has assist from Web2 and Web3 leaders for DomainFi, a decentralized finance layer to speed up the expansion of domains as a $340 billion real-world asset class. 

The Doma Protocol: Decentralized infrastructure for DomainFi

Doma Protocol is an Ethereum Digital Machine (EVM)-based blockchain purpose-built for the web’s stakeholders and designed to fulfill ICANN’s (Web Company for Assigned Names and Numbers) stringent compliance necessities and business requirements, the corporate mentioned. This ensures that the blockchain is absolutely suitable with the web’s Area Identify System (DNS) and will be simply built-in with area business instruments and processes.

Doma additionally creates a futureproof bridge between the DNS and Web3 identify methods, making certain each area state, in addition to streamlined operations throughout registries, registrars, and crypto communities, are all mapped accurately on-chain.

Doma abstracts underlying infrastructure complexities together with ICANN compliance and different DNS-specific necessities throughout the area worth chain (renew, handle, switch, and so forth.) permitting for tokenization of current and future domains on a verified foundation.

By way of verified tokenization, Doma enhances the composability, liquidity, and interoperability of domains, representing a paradigm shift in how domains are registered, traded, and utilized throughout each Web2 and Web3 ecosystems. Builders can request early entry to Doma right this moment at https://www.doma.xyz.  

Alongside Doma’s launch, D3 additionally unveiled an preliminary cohort of DomainFi community companions on the firm’s Dominion convention. 

Solana: Tokenization of domains like .com, .xyz, .ai, and .sol onto Solana will allow the next-generation of PayFi alternatives on the protocol. By means of DomainFi, conventional domains will change into real-world property that may be traded, collateralized, and utilized throughout Solana’s decentralized high-performance community.

Avalanche: As a D3 companion, Avalanche plans to use for and launch the .AVAX Prime-Degree Area (TLD). As a flagship DomainFi companion, Avalanche will present DeFi utility and liquidity for the $340B+ area business by way of its interoperable community and huge ecosystem of builders.

OneFootball: By partnering with D3 and Identification Digital, OneFootball plans to make use of .soccer domains because the fan id infrastructure for his or her worldwide group of over 180 million energetic month-to-month customers. 

Plume: By integrating DomainFi as a brand new vault class with its newly-launched Nest Protocol, Plume will allow tokenized domains to generate institutional-grade yields and democratize entry to historically restricted property and alternatives.

Hockey.com: DomainFi democratizes entry to premium domains by way of fractional possession of tokenized property like Hockey.com whereas offering liquidity choices for present homeowners. 

“Domains were the first digitally native asset class and are still one of the largest,” mentioned Charlie Noyes, basic companion at Paradigm, in a press release. “Bringing domains on-chain will make them more liquid and enable innovative new types of financial products, while giving crypto ecosystems like Solana access to names that work with the rest of the existing internet. The D3 team is uniquely suited to rebuilding domain infrastructure for the future of digital markets, and we’re excited to back them.”

Funds raised from this spherical will speed up D3’s dedication to constructing the DomainFi financial system, together with applied sciences to broaden area performance as composable property and packages to onboard area identify system operators—akin to registrars and registries—to make the most of DomainFi for his or her operations. By means of strategic partnerships throughout the conventional area business and high Web3 communities, D3 will pave the way in which for DomainFi to democratize digital asset possession for over 5 billion linked Web customers, reworking the area business on a worldwide scale.

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