ICNS is short for Internet Computer Name Service, it is built on the Internet Computer, aims to be a core component of the future Web3 ecosystem.

ICNS maps human-readable names to machine-readable crypto addresses and other customized user metadata, you will be able to participate in the IC ecosystem with your favorite unique name, Your ICNS name will be your passport to the web3 ecosystem on the Internet Computer.

WICP is the wrapped version of ICP, 1 WICP = 1 ICP, you can find details here. All payments on ICNS are settled with WICP.

You can convert ICP to WICP on Sonic.

ICNS names minimum length is 3, maximum length is 64, and can only contain alphanumeric characters (lowercase letters a-z, numbers 0-9) and hyphen('-').

You can directly register an ICNS name through our ICNS app interface.

To honor people and projects that contributed to the IC ecosystem, we reserved a list of names for them, if you are on the list, post the following content on Twitter and we'll assign the name to you. Names in the list are reserved for 6 months, names will be open for registration if unclaimed within the reservation period. You can find the reserved names here.Hi @icnsid, I want to claim my reserved name: icns.icp, my principal id is: xxxxx.

You can extend the name expiration on the name's detail page, the minimum extension is 1 year. If a name expires, there is a 1 month protection period, the original owner can renew the name within this period, the name will be open for registration if not renewed within the protection period.

The registration fee is priced in US dollars and currently only ICP payment is supported.