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gTLD (Generic Top-Level Domain)

A top-level domain not tied to a country, such as .com, .org, or .xyz, run under ICANN contract.

Namefi TeamNamefi TeamAuthorVictor ZhouVictor ZhouEditorJune 22, 2026
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A gTLD (generic top-level domain) is a TLD that is not tied to a country — the classic ones are .com, .org, .net, and .info, joined since 2012 by hundreds of new gTLDs like .xyz, .app, and .shop. Every gTLD is operated by a registry under contract with ICANN, which sets the baseline policy that all accredited registrars must follow — distinct from a ccTLD, which answers to a country instead.

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Namefi TeamAuthor
Namefi Team • Namefi

Namefi is a collective of engineers, designers, and operators who obsess over building tools that make managing your onchain domain names effortless.

Victor ZhouEditor
Founder & Standards Editor • Namefi

Victor Zhou is a technology founder and standards editor focused on digital identity and trust. He founded Namefi, edits Ethereum Improvement Proposals, and previously led smart-contract architecture work at Google Labs.

His work sits at the intersection of naming, ownership, and the systems people use to establish identity online. That perspective makes him especially interested in the way names move between personal meaning, public recognition, and digital infrastructure.

For Namefi, Victor edits and writes about domains as durable digital identity: how names become ownable onchain assets, how tokenization changes custody and trust, and what naming can learn from the systems people use to establish identity online.