Get paid at a name. Split it before it moves.
A crypto payment link can settle to a domain name such as pay.yourname. Each party signs its share onchain first, and only then does money travel. Control of the name is control of the destination.
One invoice, three payees, one signature each.
Your organization bills a client, who sees a single name and a single total. Three parties have already signed who receives what.
Split on settlement
- Principaltreasury.yourbrand85%
- Agencypay.youragency10%
- Referralpay.yourreferrer5%
- The client reads a nameNo long address to copy and recheck. pay.yourbrand reads like the company that issued the bill.
- Shares are fixed before moneyPrincipal, agency and referrer signed their percentages onchain, so no one chases a transfer or disputes a cut afterwards.
- The TLD holder steers the fundspay.yourbrand points where the holder of .yourbrand says. Here that is your organization. On a TLD held elsewhere, it would not be.
The 85, 10 and 5 percent shares are illustrative. Real splits are whatever the parties sign.
Get paid to a web3 name in four moves
The example on this page runs on shaka, an onchain payment router: payment links pay out to names, and every party signs its share before funds move. Hush Partners settles its own referral partners this way at closing.
- 01Link the nameIssue pay.yourname and attach a receiving wallet through the Freename resolver.
- 02List the payeesName every payee, from agency to referrer, and fix each share up front.
- 03Sign onchainOn shaka, every party signs the split before anything is sent.
- 04Send the linkThe client pays once, and each share lands at the name it was signed for.
What it means for you
A pay name that wears your brand
If an outside party holds the TLD matching your trademark, it can issue a pay name under it today and collect behind your brand. No step in that flow asks you first. Ask counsel about rights, and ask us where your names stand.
Run a free Trademark Name CheckBrand namespace recoveryCollecting beats explaining
A finance team that can picture pay.theirname on next quarter's invoices budgets for the TLD with a business case attached. Freename TLDs carry no renewal fee, so that value holds while you wait for the right buyer.
Request a private valuationPay names as a product line
On a market TLD, every merchant or member can get a pay name. The Reseller API sells them under your brand and prices, and the registry passes part of each registration fee back to you, as much as half on its current terms.
Open the revenue calculatorWork with us as an operatorKnow the edges. Names resolve only in compatible wallets, outside the ICANN DNS, so keep the raw address on invoices for clients who cannot read them yet. A name alone proves nothing about its owner. Tax and accounting treatment of each share stays with your advisers.
Proof
- shakaPayment links that pay out to names, with splits signed onchain first.
- Freename APIsReseller API, with name-based payments listed for finance.
- Freename: name your walletAttaching a receiving address to a name.
- Freename help centerNo TLD renewal fees and the holder's registration fee share.
Questions about payments at a name
Can a crypto payment link use a domain name instead of a wallet address?
Yes. shaka payment links pay out to names. Issue pay.yourname under an onchain TLD, attach a receiving wallet, and print the name on invoices. Payers in compatible wallets see the name.
What is an onchain payment split?
A record of who gets which share of a payment, signed onchain by every party before the money is sent. On arrival, each share goes to the name it was signed for, and everyone reads the same record.
Could someone else collect payments under our brand name?
Whoever holds the onchain TLD matching your brand controls every name below it, a pay name included. Your counsel judges the legal side. A free Trademark Name Check confirms, confidentially, whether such a TLD exists.
Can a signed split be changed?
Only by agreement. If terms shift, every party signs the new split before the next payment moves, so settle the shares carefully up front.