Leasing
Renting the use of a domain for a recurring fee while keeping ownership, with smart contracts able to enforce terms and automate the payments.
- glossary
Leasing in the domain context refers to temporarily granting usage rights to a domain while retaining ownership. Traditional domain leasing involves manual agreements and trust between parties. With tokenized domains, leasing can be automated through smart contracts that handle payments, term enforcement, and automatic reversion of control. Domain owners can earn passive income by leasing their valuable domains to businesses or projects that need them temporarily. Smart contract-based leasing eliminates the need for intermediaries, reduces costs, and ensures transparent, automatic execution of lease terms—creating new revenue streams for domain holders while providing flexible access for lessees.
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Contributors
Namefi is a collective of engineers, designers, and operators who obsess over building tools that make managing your onchain domain names effortless.
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.