What to Do After Buying a Domain? Your Step-by-Step Guide
You’ve bought your first NFT domain, and maybe you now wonder what the next steps are. Making a website? Using your domain name as your crypto address?
You can do endless things with your NFT domain, and you’ll want to make the most of its functions. If you’re confused about how to use your NFT domain, we’ll go through everything you need to know in this step-by-step guide.
Is it Worth Buying NFT Domains?
With all the hype around NFT domains, it is natural to have some doubts. The same doubts appeared back in the days when cryptocurrencies and NFTs came out. But that didn’t stop these from growing and making people a lot of profit.
Like NFTs, blockchain domains are very much worth buying for multiple reasons. First, once you buy them, you are the owner for life and have complete control over them. Also, you can replace your crypto address with your domain name, which is a great plus, particularly if you use crypto for your transactions.
Apart from that, they are decentralized, which means no authority can seize you in the future. All things considered, yes, it’s worth investing and buying NFT domains.
How to Store Your NFT Domain?
Once you buy your NFT domain, you’ll want to know where to store it. Unlike regular domains stored on the registrars’ database, NFT ones work a little differently. First of all, you can store your NFT domain on the marketplace you bought it from, like Cloudname. But you can also decide to move it elsewhere for convenience or safety purposes.
The first way to move them from the marketplace’s database is to store them into a hardware wallet. This is the safest way to store your NFT domain as they are disconnected from the internet and, therefore, not accessible to hackers or cyber-attacks.
The second option is to move your NFT domain to your crypto wallet such as Coinbase or MetaMask. While these aren’t as safe as a hardware wallet, they are very convenient and allow users to access them anytime.
What to Do After Buying a Domain?
There you are; you’re finally ready to take action on your blockchain domain after buying it. But you’re confused as to where to start. Let’s elaborate on each step of the process in detail.
1. Connect Your Crypto Wallet
The first step after purchasing your NFT domain is to connect it to your crypto wallet. As mentioned previously, this helps keep it safe, but it also allows you to get the proper permission to become the owner. In fact, if you want to receive full ownership, you’ll have to store it in your wallet.
Not all domains are compatible with all crypto wallets, so it’s good to check beforehand. If you’ve already purchased your domain and it isn’t compatible with your wallet, you’ll have to open a new wallet on another platform.
2. Minting Your NFT Domain
Minting your NFT is an essential step of the process as it allows you to become the genuine owner of the domain. To put it into perspective, it’s like signing the papers and receiving the keys to a new car you just bought.
Or, if you buy an NFT, you’ll be the owner of the smart contract, and this is the same as minting your NFT domain.
After minting your NFT domain, its data and smart contract will be moved from the marketplace’s database to the blockchain and eventually appear in your crypto wallet. Once that is done, you’ll be the official owner of the blockchain domain.
3. Replace Your Crypto Address With Your Domain Name
Now that your NFT domain is in your crypto wallet, you should use one of its most special functions – replacing your crypto address. Crypto addresses are pretty long and uncomfortable to handle transactions as they are long and confusing – e.g. 578rjfr9fjr837x After logging into your cryptocurrency wallet, go to “Receive crypto” and select your NFT domain.
Now that you’ve replaced your crypto address with your NFT domain, you’re ready to receive transactions with your domain.
4. Create a Website
If you successfully complete all the steps above, then making a website is the ultimate goal you should target. That being said, not all browsers natively support web3 (the part of the internet on which NFT domains are based), and you’ll have to either:
- Use Opera or Brave browsers, which support and display blockchain domains and websites
- Install a plugin or extension on your favorite browser, allowing you to create a website
Creating a website with your NFT domain isn’t a complex task, and we have several templates available on Cloudname that you should check out.
Conclusion
While these steps after buying an NFT domain can be daunting at first, they are much more straightforward than they sound. After all, blockchain domains are the future of the internet, and they will soon be indexed by search engines, allowing NFT owners to make the most of their assets.
To conclude, purchase your NFT domain today on Cloudname and get ready to embrace the future of the crypto world.