Doma turns one: a year of building together and the mission ahead.
By Fred Hsu, Co-Founder & CEO, D3
Next month, Doma Protocol turns one.
A year ago, Doma launched on one idea: domains are one of the internet's oldest and most valuable assets, and they belong onchain. Twelve months later, the idea runs on a live network with $701M+ in trading volume, 49M+ onchain transactions and 64K+ wallets.
Many of you built this with us. The testnet crew from summer 2025. The traders who showed up on day one of mainnet. The dozens of creators who joined the DOMAXX ambassador program. The 66K+ Frontier members lined up for the next generation of the internet. Thank you.
Here's a look back at year one, the mission ahead, and where we take Doma in 2027.
Year one, quarter by quarter
Dec 2025: mainnet goes live
Doma Protocol launched with one promise: tokenize a domain in place, and the name keeps resolving like any other domain. Since then, over 269,000 domains have been tokenized on Doma.
H1 2026: ownership opens up
Fractional launches gave anyone with a wallet a slice of a premium name. 790+ premium domains have launched to date. In Q2, we announced DAVs which will turn whole domain portfolios into a single token, so owners raise capital without selling a name.
Q3 2026: the land rush starts
Frontier opened the line for the new internet extensions. 45K+ people joined in the first week. Supported third-party vaults followed on Hyperliquid, Solana, and for USDC. Today, 66,685 members track over 1,000 new extensions, led by .agent and .sol, an extension for the Solana community.
Q4 2026: agents arrive
DNA launched to make websites agent-ready: see which AI agents visit, let the right ones in, and get paid. MCP agent trading put AI agents to work trading tokenized domains on Doma.
Offchain, too
We met many of you in person this year at Dominion in Las Vegas and recently at Korea Blockchain Week. Gochujang.com ran two creator seasons, with Season 2 live now. Every Doma Weekly, AMA and Discord thread shaped what we shipped.
Doma set out to bring domains onchain without breaking the internet. One year in, tokenized domains now trade around the clock and still resolve like any other domain.
The mission: every domain, onchain and AI-ready
Our mission for the next decade: tokenize every domain, existing and future, and make each one AI-ready.
- Existing domains. 411.6M domains were registered as of Q3 2026, up 8.7% year over year (Verisign). DAVs bring whole portfolios onchain. Fractional tokens open premium names to anyone with a wallet.
- Future domains. ICANN's first new round in 14 years drew 1,600+ applications, including .agent, .robot and .wallet. Frontier lines up demand so new extensions launch with real buyers from day one.
- AI-ready domains. AI agent requests to websites grew 18x year over year (Cloudflare, Sep 2026). Agents need identity, access and payments, and the domain is where all three meet. DNA makes every domain ready for them and with settlement rails like Stripe, x402, and MPP.
All three will run on one network: Doma Protocol. As agents need names of their own, we see 1B domains within the decade. We intend to bring them onchain - programmable, composable, and AI-ready.
How we measure growth
We measure our mission by one question: how much of the internet runs on Doma? In 2027, our job is to multiply each one.
What's ahead in 2027
Every product ships every quarter in 2027, and every release adds to Doma Protocol.
This roadmap is illustrative. Scope and timing evolve as we build. Items marked with an asterisk depend on ICANN and registry timelines.
Build year two with us
Everything we’ve launched drives value to Doma Protocol. DAVs and fractional tokens bring existing names onchain. Frontier brings future names. DNA brings AI agents to every domain on the network. Each one grows the same network.
Ways to grow Doma with us:
- Trade and hold tokenized domains, fractional tokens and DAVs on the Doma App
- Bring your names onchain, from one domain to a full portfolio
- Join Frontier and build priority for .agent, .sol and 1,000+ more
- Make your site agent-ready at ai.d3.com
- Build trading agents and apps using the Doma MCP server
- Show up on Discord, at AMAs and at Dominion 2027
Real usage grows the network, and a bigger network serves everyone on Doma.
See you on Discord
I'll be live for an AMA on Tuesday, Nov 10, at 8:30am PT. Bring your questions and your ideas for year two.
Year one proved the thesis. Year two scales the mission.
Thank you for building with us.
