What if your registered DMD name could do more than represent your wallet address? What if you could also use that same identity to connect your website and receive emails?
This is what the upcoming second phase of the DMD Naming System aims to introduce. Following the rollout of the naming system in Diamond UI Release 2.0, the next phase will extend the usefulness of registered DMD names beyond the blockchain through Domain Name System (DNS) integration.
The first phase introduced human-readable .dmd names, allowing users to register and manage unique blockchain identities as on-chain NFTs. With Phase 2, these names will gain practical applications across conventional internet services, particularly websites and email.
Connecting Your DMD Name to a Website
Imagine you’ve registered stephen.dmd through Diamond UI. With the upcoming DNS integration, that name will be associated with a corresponding DNS subdomain, stephen.dmd.domains, which you can configure to direct visitors to your website.
Name owners will have two configuration options. An A record will allow users to point their subdomain directly to a server’s IP address, while a CNAME record will enable them to point it to another domain or hostname. Only one of these website target options can be active at a time.
For developers building applications, projects establishing an online presence, or community members managing personal websites, this means their registered DMD identity can become part of how people find and access their online resources.
Free Email Forwarding for DMD Name Owners
Beyond websites, Phase 2 will introduce email forwarding linked to registered DMD names. For example, the owner of stephen.dmd could configure stephen@dmd.domains to forward incoming emails to an existing address, such as stephen@gmail.com.
This means users will be able to receive messages through an address associated with their DMD identity without needing to manage a separate email inbox.
The service will provide email forwarding only, not dedicated mailbox storage. Users who require additional services, such as website hosting or dedicated email inboxes, may obtain them independently from third-party providers.
Both basic DNS configuration and email forwarding are planned to be free services, although configuration changes submitted through Diamond UI will require on-chain transaction gas fees.
How Will the DNS Integration Work?
An important technical aspect of this development is that the DMD Diamond blockchain will remain the source of truth for DNS configuration settings, rather than leaving configuration management entirely to an external DNS provider.
Name owners will manage their website targets and email forwarding destinations directly through Diamond UI. Whenever a user creates, updates, or removes a configuration, the action will initiate a smart contract transaction that records the change on the DMD blockchain.
A dedicated DNS synchronization service will monitor these on-chain changes and communicate the corresponding updates to the DNS provider responsible for managing the dmd.domains infrastructure. This service will handle the creation, modification, and removal of DNS records without exposing the provider’s API credentials through Diamond UI.
A synchronization interval of approximately 15 minutes has been proposed, although the time required for DNS changes to become visible may also depend on external DNS caching.
The dmd.domains DNS zone will be operated by the non-profit DMD Diamond Association, supporting the connection between blockchain-managed naming configurations and conventional internet infrastructure.
What Happens When a DMD Name Changes Ownership?
The upcoming integration also accounts for name ownership transfers.
When a registered DMD name changes ownership, its existing website and email forwarding configurations will automatically be cleared from the smart contract. The synchronization service will then remove the corresponding DNS settings, preventing the previous owner’s destinations from remaining associated with the transferred name.
The new owner will be able to establish fresh configurations through Diamond UI.
Name moderation will also extend to DNS publishing. Names included in the existing server-side hidden or blocked list will not be published to DNS, while previously published records for subsequently blocked names will be removed. This mechanism remains separate from permanent name blacklisting through DAO governance.
What Should the DMD Diamond Community Anticipate?
The first phase of the DMD Naming System made blockchain identities easier to register, recognize, and manage. Phase 2 will build on that foundation by introducing practical connections between those identities and everyday internet services.
Importantly, DNS configuration will not depend solely on the official Diamond UI. Since these settings are stored on-chain, users will also be able to manage them through locally hosted Diamond UI instances. Even when accessing the interface independently, their configurations can still be synchronized with the DNS infrastructure, reinforcing the decentralized approach behind the DMD Naming System.
The next step goes beyond owning a recognizable name on the DMD Diamond blockchain. It’s about putting that name to practical use across the internet while retaining on-chain control over its configuration.
Phase 2 remains under development, and further updates will follow as DNS integration progresses toward release. Join us on Discord!
