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Registrant

The person or organization that holds the rights to a registered domain name — the owner of record.

NTNamefi TeamAuthorVZVictor ZhouEditorJune 22, 2026
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A registrant is the person or organization that holds the rights to a registered domain — the registered name holder on record. The registrant contracts with a registrar, which in turn works with the registry under ICANN rules; the registrant is the closest thing the traditional system has to an "owner," though those rights live in a registrar account rather than something you hold directly.

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Namefi Team

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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.

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Victor Zhou

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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.

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