bid-sunrise 🌅

a command-line tool to take top10milliondomains.csv and create 10k-reserved-domains.csv

bid-sunrise is a command-line tool to take the top10milliondomains.csv file from DomCop's Open PageRank initiative and create the 10k-reserved-domains.csv file that serves as a list of reserved domains for the sunrise period of the bid protocol for Bitcoin Identifiers/Usernames with arb.

It is experimental software, should be considered a work-in-progress, and has no warranty. All features may not be fully implemented currently. See issues and LICENSE for more details.

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bid Protocol

• Characters can be alphanumeric with hyphens and underscores, lowercase a through z, 0 through 9, - and _ in any combination.

• Length can be 1 through 16 characters, with 6 characters and shorter reserved for a future update, so 7 to 16 characters to start with.

• Usernames must be renewed periodically, likely every 52,500 blocks, which is about 1 year, but perhaps a shorter period initially to discourage speculation and encourage engagement.

• A sunrise period where a list of the top ten thousand domains are reserved, with the matching username claimable by publishing some specific data at a well-known location on the domain prior to the end of the sunrise period, which would be some specified block height.

• Claimed domains (e.g., example.tld) can choose between the formats example, exampletld, and example_tld, which allows domains like "simplywall.st" to have an appropriate representation.

Usage

• Download and extract the top10milliondomains.csv
• Place the CSV file in the directory that contains the Cargo.toml file for bid-sunrise
• Run cargo build
• Run ./target/debug/bid-sunrise
• Optionally compare the hash of the output 10k-reserved-domains.csv to what the command printed