Bored Ape Yacht Club Members Can Now Reserve Their Dot Ape Domain Names Via Ape Names! Find Out More:

The domain game is officially monkey business after D3 Inc. invited Bored Ape Yacht Club members to claim their Dot Ape identities through their new platform, Ape Names!

Things are anything but boring around the swamp and the broader $Ape ecosystem this weekend as Ape Names announced that BAYC members can now reserve their Dot Ape Top-Level Domain names via its ApeCoin-powered Ape Names platform!

"Own an Ape? It’s time to #NameYourApe,” the company tweeted earlier this week. “Connect Wallet (TokenProof Supported) . Search For A Name. Reserve A Name For Your Ape . Refresh Browser Until Launch.”

 

By reserving a name on Ape Names today, community members will eventually receive an interoperable Dot Ape domain name once ApeChain officially launches.

Note that Ape Names supports Warm and Delegate wallets, so you do not need to connect your cold wallet to claim your name.

As the Bored Ape Gazette previously reported, the ApeCoin DAO approved D3’s Ape Names AIP, AIP-395, in April 2024.

With this AIP’s approval, D3 will apply to have .Ape recognized as a top-level domain by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) this year.

This will allow the ApeCoin DAO to operate and monetize .Ape domains, positioning .Ape alongside other top-level domains. This new source of revenue will benefit the DAO as users and companies obtain their .Ape domains, according to D3 Inc. CEO and BAYC member Fred Hsu.

 

“The .APE TLD has the potential to create a lucrative, perpetual source of revenue for ApeCoin DAO, enabling growth of the community through new .APE domains, and cement ApeCoin (and $APE) as a major real-world asset with interoperability and utility at its core,” Hsu wrote in his proposal. “D3 plans to offer a patent-pending tokenized APE (e.g. SAM APE) as an immediate Web3 identifier for users, while in parallel submitting the ICANN application for the real .APE TLD to enable future interoperability and native resolution seamlessly across Web2 and Web3. ApeCoin DAO will receive 50% of all gross revenues generated from the *APE name tokens and the .APE Top-Level Domain.”

 

For more information on Ape Names or to claim your Dot Ape today, visit their website here:: https://apenames.com/Reserve

 

The Bored Ape Gazette will continue to follow Ape Names and will keep you updated on D3’s next steps with Dot Ape. Stay tuned!