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Aliases

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Aliases are unique names which can be owned on the Signum chain. With each Alias, the owner has a data room of about 1,000 characters which can be used for any data set. Besides that, the owner of the Alias can change the data collection at any time.

Based on the Signum standard SRC-44, the owner of an Alias can define different kinds of Aliases types from a simple Signum account pointer, a domain forward setup by SIP-47 or a complete own web3 Identity. Besides the standard field of the SRC-44, custom fields can be easily applied and support the needs of any use case.

Signum Top Level Domain (STLD)

The registration of an Alias is applied to an STLD (Signum Top Level Domain). Compared to an URL, Signum provides a framework allowing the user to register the Alias as a second-level domain and decide on which top-level domain (TLD) the Alias should exist. Signum provides the following STLDs by default:

  • blockchain
  • coin
  • crypto
  • dao
  • decentral
  • dex
  • free
  • nft
  • p2p
  • sig
  • signa
  • signum
  • sns
  • w3
  • wallet
  • web3
  • x
  • y
  • z

Aliases created without an STLD have the .signum STLD for free.

Example:

Suppose a user creates an Alias without an STLD selection like "Spaceship". In that case, this Alias gets registered for "Spaceship" and "Spaceship.signum"
Suppose a user created an Alias "Spaceship" with the STLD, for example, "crypto". In that case, this Alias is now only registered for "Spaceship.crypto".



Each Alias is limited to 1,000 character data room, but aliases can be connected via the 'al' field of the JSON, described in the SIP-47. In this case, the combined data rooms are infinite.



Example Alias transaction:

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Updated 03 May 2023
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