Redemption Period (RGP)
A post-expiration window where a lapsed domain can be recovered, usually for a steep redemption fee.
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The redemption period (formally the Redemption Grace Period, RGP) is a roughly 30-day window after a domain has fully lapsed — past its grace period — during which the original registrant can still recover it, but only by paying a steep redemption fee on top of the renewal cost. During RGP the name is removed from the zone (the site goes dark) but not yet released. If it is not redeemed, the domain moves to pending delete and then drops. The redemption period is a registry-level safety net in the traditional system; the lesson for any valuable name — tokenized or not — is to renew well before expiration.
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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.