Unstoppable Domains in MEW: Get a .Crypto Home for Your Assets and Content

Every piece of information that exists on the internet — whether it’s a document, an image, a website, or a digital financial asset — has a home, hosted on a server or a cloud, with an address that will lead you to that location on the network.

For most of the internet, these ‘homes’ are in centralized storage, and the actual directing to the home addresses is managed by centralized services, too. If a server or a network is compromised, you can lose access to all the things that you thought were yours — accounts, notes, emails, as well as intellectual and financial property.

While the idea of having your website content censored or your funds seized by third parties may seem like a distant, far-too-dystopian scenario, when it comes to your most valuable assets, it’s worth exploring the alternative options. A crypto wallet combined with a decentralized domain is such an option, and you can set it all up in MEW with Unstoppable Domains.

Register and manage your domain

You will find Unstoppable Domains on MEW’s growing Dapps page. Just access your wallet (with our extensive support of hardware wallets, plus WalletConnect, WalletLink, and MetaMask, you can pretty much access any wallet) and find Dapps on the dashboard. If you don’t have a wallet, you can create one and get it a .crypto name — all at once, with MEW.

With the Unstoppable Domains Dapp, you can search the name you are interested in, pay for it, and assign the addresses on different blockchains where you want the funds to go when they are sent to the domain name.

Unlike DNS domains, when you purchase a .crypto domain, it’s a one-time payment and the domain is yours for life. You can view it as an ERC721 token — NFT — in your wallet, via MEW’s NFT manager, in a block explorer like Etherscan, and on OpenSea.

Easy way to send payments

Once you get your decentralized domain, a great way to spread adoption and encourage best practices is to have your friends, payees, and payers get their own. That way, everyone can stop the copying and the pasting and the sending to the wrong wallet when even one character is off…

Really, can you imagine: if every time you needed someone to pay you a few dollars for coffee, you’d need to give them your bank account and routing numbers, off the top of your head? With a human-readable domain name, crypto payments can be as easy as any mainstream payment app. The .crypto domains are supported in most popular wallets including MEW, Trust Wallet, Coinomi, Atomic, and many others.

Uncensorable content

Centralized control means that you are not the one in control, so if your service provider experiences an attack or decides to take your content down, for whatever reason, there is not much you can do about it.

With decentralized domains, you own the domain for life as an asset on the blockchain, and only you control what happens to it and the content that you choose to post. No one can take it down except you, but you can also sell and transfer the domain to anyone, in minutes.

Unstoppable Domains can be accessed directly with the Opera browser, or with the Unstoppable Domains Chrome extension, bringing the decentralized Web3 closer than ever. To find out much more about the integration and the evolving community of decentralized websites, check out our AMA with Unstoppable Domains Founder Bradley Kam. For detailed instructions on using the Unstoppable Domains dapp in MEW, go to our Knowledge Base.

Taking full control of your assets has never been easier, or more fun. Try out the new Dapp, get your 30% discount, and help the decentralized internet grow!

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