How Domains.Kred was built
for the AI-citation era

Born from fifteen years of identity infrastructure, an ICANN-approved sovereign namespace, and the realization that the URL bar's job has moved to the prompt. This is how a .Kred domain came to ship an AI-readable Kredentials page on day one, and why every domain owner now needs one.

In short
  1. Domains.Kred is the direct registrar for .Kred names - the only ICANN-approved top-level domain that resolves on the traditional web (DNS), the Ethereum Name Service (ENS), and the ERC-8004 agent registry in a single name.
  2. Every registration ships a Kredentials page on day one - AI-native, build-time rendered, with structured data and citations baked in. Standard names from USD $19 per year.
  3. The architecture inherits from fifteen years of identity work - PeopleBrowsr's social firehose (2007), the Kred influence score (2011), the ICANN delegation (2013), the dual DNS-and-ENS launch (2020), and the ERC-8004 agent identity layer (2026).
  4. The buyer is anyone who needs to be cited rather than only clicked - .com owners boosting their AI exposure, creators, agent developers, ENS holders, and resellers with portfolios.

The homepage that AI discovers, matters more than the homepage built ten years ago - and most of the web hasn't noticed yet. Domains.Kred is the answer to that gap.

02The inflection moment

Something quiet happened to the web in November 2022, and most domain owners are still acting as if it didn't. ChatGPT shipped, then Perplexity, then Claude, then Google's AI Overviews ref. The URL bar - the field every domain registration assumed was the destination - slowly stopped being the place people went to find things. The prompt became the destination. The answer became the result. The cited link became the new traffic.

The crawlers that feed those answers - GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot - share a quiet limitation that breaks the entire 2010-era web: they don't execute JavaScript ref. Most domain landing pages, parking templates, and registrar-default pages render their content via client-side JavaScript injection. To a regular browser, the page looks fine. To an AI crawler, the page is empty. To the model, the domain doesn't exist.

Sit with that for a minute. An AI model trained on a corpus that does not include your domain, will provide an answer that does not include your domain. The cited domain wins the answer. The uncited domain gets nothing.

This is the moment that pushed Domains.Kred from a side-project into its own direct registrar. The conclusion was uncomfortably simple: a domain without an AI-readable origin story is a domain that gets skipped in the answer. Every registrar in the world was still selling the URL. Almost none were selling the page that made the URL findable in the answers people now type into prompts.

This origin story tells the story of the registrar that was built to close that gap - its lineage, the architecture it inherited, the page format it ships, the price it charges, the people it serves, and where the pattern is going next. It is also a long-form demonstration: every claim in the body has a citation chip, every section has a stable ID, the structured data layer is loaded before the body, and the whole document is build-time rendered. The post about LLM optimization passes the LLM-optimization checklist itself.

03What Domains.Kred is

Domains.Kred is the direct registrar for names registered in the .Kred top-level domain. .Kred is the only ICANN-approved TLD whose registry guarantees synchronisation across three layers of the internet at once - the traditional web (DNS), the Ethereum Name Service (ENS), and the ERC-8004 agent identity registry ref. Every registered .Kred name resolves as a website, as a wallet, and as a verifiable agent identity, governed by a single ERC-721 token in the registrant's wallet.

Standard names start at USD $19 per year. Premium 4-character names register at USD $100 with USD $50 per year renewal. Premium 3-character names register at USD $1,000 with USD $100 per year renewal.

The crucial product detail: every registration ships a Kredentials page. The Kredentials page is what other registrars call a "parking page" or a "lander" - except it has no template residue, no PPC ad slots, no "this domain may be for sale" placeholder copy, and crucially no client-side JavaScript injection. The page is a per-domain origin page, generated at registration time from two inputs (the domain string, and one social handle the registrant attaches), illustrated with a unique AI image, structured for citation, and propagated through the registry's edge layer to every AI crawler that asks for it. Server-rendered. Build-time finalised. AI-readable from minute one.

The registrar is operated by Kred, the brand built by PeopleBrowsr - the social identity, reputation, and tokenization company that has been building this stack continuously since 2007. The wider .Kred surface area has three customer-facing front doors: Domains.Kred (the buyer's registrar, the subject of this origin story), Nic.Kred (the registry operator portal - wholesale pricing, partner onboarding, registrar resources), and Home.Kred (the brand hub, the editorial home of the namespace). Domains.Kred is the front door for anyone who wants to register and own a name.

The rest of the story explains why an AI-native page on a sovereign namespace is a different category of product from a parking page on someone else's platform - and how the company that ships it ended up uniquely positioned to do so.

A Kred Score cannot exist without a .Kred domain or subdomain identity. Four canonical subdomain hubs provide a cheap, low-friction on-ramp for first-time agents and humans alike: agent.Kred (USD $12 per year, caps the score at 499), dev.Kred (free with GitHub verification, caps at 399), seed.Kred (free with email verification, caps at 299), and try.Kred (free 30-day sandbox, caps at 199). Full .Kred domains carry the ERC-721 Kred Domain Token and unlock the Trusted and Sovereign tiers; subdomain identities use a soft NFT credential that does not transfer registration rights.

Kred operates as a protocol and software company, publishing rules and software. All bonded capital required for Sovereign-tier identities, validator attestations, and slashing-protocol commitments is held by third-party custodians, vault operators, and payment institutions under their own licences. Kred earns protocol fees on activity - bond posting, slashing execution, protocol licence, dispute resolution - rather than management fees on assets under management. The model follows the same shape as Chainlink Labs, ENS Labs, Uniswap Labs, and the Kleros Cooperative.

04The lineage - what Domains.Kred inherited

Domains.Kred is the latest endpoint of a continuous fifteen-year arc. The arc began with the social-data firehose in 2007 and moved through every major identity-infrastructure inflection since. Each step in that arc is load-bearing for the registrar that exists today. The eight sub-sections below tell the lineage chronologically, and each one closes on the line that connects the milestone to a feature shipping on Domains.Kred right now.

4.1The firehose and the Trillion Conversation Datamine (2007-2012)

PeopleBrowsr launched in San Francisco in 2007 with a thesis that sounded grandiose at the time and obvious in retrospect: the most consequential data in the world was what people were saying to each other in public, in real time. The team plugged directly into the Twitter firehose - at peak, 340 million tweets per day - and began indexing, scoring, and archiving every public message ref. The resulting dataset grew into the Trillion Conversation Datamine, one of the largest real-time records of human social behavior ever assembled.

On top of that archive, the team built ReSearch.ly - what trade press called "Google for social media" - offering 1,000 days of searchable Twitter history at a moment when Twitter's own search interface displayed only the last few hours. The product trained the team on the discipline that would define everything that followed: assemble the signal yourself, score it transparently, and let the user audit the math.

Chart 1 Cumulative public tweets indexed by PeopleBrowsr ReSearch.ly, 2007-2013 (log scale)
Cumulative tweets indexed by PeopleBrowsr 2007-2013 Log-scale line chart showing cumulative public tweets ingested by PeopleBrowsr's ReSearch.ly archive, growing from approximately 50 million in 2007 to roughly 200 billion by April 2013 when the Twitter settlement closed. 200B 20B 2B 200M 20M 2M 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Apr '13 ~50M ~50B ~200B April 2013 settlement Cumulative tweets (log)
Source: PeopleBrowsr historical archive figures and Twitter public daily-tweet volumes (2007-2013) ref. Method: daily firehose volume × ReSearch.ly retention window of 1,000 days, plotted as a log-scale running cumulative. Estimated - exact figures vary by retention reset and ingest gap; the magnitude order is conservative.

4.2Kred 2011 - we are all influential somewhere

Kred launched in 2011 with what was, for its moment, a contrarian thesis: we are all influential somewhere. Every person, within their specific communities and contexts, carries measurable influence. The system refused to rank everyone on a single global leaderboard. Instead, Kred found the communities where you mattered, and scored you in those communities ref.

The dual-score architecture was the philosophical innovation - and it survives, refined, in everything Kred has shipped since:

  1. Influence (1-1,000) - what others did because of you. Retweets, mentions, replies. The world responding to your signal.
  2. Outreach (1-12) - what you did for others. Conversations started, content shared, communities engaged. Generosity in action.

Trust and Generosity. Two numbers that captured the full picture, rather than only how loud you were. The +Kred gesture turned that philosophy into a single cross-platform mechanic: give someone recognition, the giver received 30 Outreach points and the receiver received 70 Influence points. Trust and Generosity exchanged in a single click. That mechanic - recognising others as itself worth measuring - became the philosophical core of Kred and survives, materially intact, in the Gen 2 scoring system fifteen years later.

Transparency was non-negotiable. Kred published a real-time Activity Statement showing every tweet, every retweet, every point earned. The methodology was published. The data was auditable. By the time the brand TLD application was filed, Kred had scored 400 million social profiles automatically against public social signals, with 300,000 of those profiles registered as active Kred users by 2017. It was generating over USD 20 million in annual revenue from Fortune 500 companies, the U.S. Department of Defense, and government agencies - entirely self-funded, every dollar earned from customers ref.

Chart 2 Kred dual-score architecture - Influence × Outreach (2011 Gen 1)
Kred dual-score quadrant: Influence vs Outreach Quadrant chart with Influence on the X axis (1 to 1000) and Outreach on the Y axis (1 to 12). Four labeled quadrants: Loud Broadcaster (high Influence, low Outreach), Generous Connector (high Influence, high Outreach), Lurker (low Influence, low Outreach), and Helper (low Influence, high Outreach). Sample points scattered across the chart illustrate the distribution of human profiles. LURKER low Influence, low Outreach LOUD BROADCASTER high Influence, low Outreach HELPER low Influence, high Outreach GENEROUS CONNECTOR high Influence, high Outreach Score the +Kred way → both axes count 1 500 1,000 Influence (1-1,000) - what others did because of you 1 6 12 Outreach (1-12) - what you did for others
Source: Kred public methodology page (2011-2017) ref. Method: illustrative quadrant; points are representative archetypes, not specific scored profiles. The dual-axis architecture is the same one Score.Kred Gen 2 carries into agent-and-operator scoring in 2026.

4.3The Twitter settlement and the architectural lesson (2012-2013)

In late 2012, Twitter informed PeopleBrowsr that firehose access would be terminated, funnelled instead through Twitter's own approved limited resellers. The team recognised the move for what it was - a platform consolidating control over the analytics market it had enabled others to create.

PeopleBrowsr sued. A temporary restraining order kept the data flowing. The case moved between state and federal courts until Twitter settled in April 2013 ref. The legal battle became one of the first major tests of platform power over third-party data access.

The lasting takeaway from that case was architectural rather than legal. If you build on someone else's platform, they own the off switch. Every piece of infrastructure designed afterwards - the brand TLD, SocialOS, Empire.Kred, the NFT stack, the agentic identity layer, and Domains.Kred itself - was an answer to that lesson. Build sovereign. Own the namespace. Carry the off switch yourself.

The same pattern repeated across the social-internet decade. The graph below maps the major API access changes and shutdowns at major platforms across 2010-2026. Most analytics businesses built on those APIs disappeared with them.

Chart 3 Major platform API access shutdowns and rate-limit changes, 2010-2026
Platform API shutdowns timeline 2010-2026 Horizontal timeline showing major platform API restrictions and shutdowns including Twitter firehose 2012, Instagram API 2018, Reddit API 2023, Twitter API paywall 2023, and TikTok research API 2024. 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 Twitter firehose restricted 2012 Twitter v PB settled Apr 2013 Instagram API cut 2018 Facebook Graph tightened 2018-21 Twitter analytics era Reddit API paywall 2023 X / Twitter paywall 2023 ↓ Each marker = a single moment when API access narrowed for downstream analytics
Source: public press archives (TechCrunch, The Verge, Domain Name Wire), platform developer-blog announcements 2010-2026. Method: non-exhaustive selection of the most consequential access changes; many smaller restrictions are omitted. Estimated dating in some cases - most platforms phased changes over months.

4.4The ICANN application and delegation (2012-2017)

On June 13, 2012 - five months before the firehose threat became real - Kred filed application 1-1707-1944 with ICANN under the new generic top-level domain program ref. The application named the registry backend (Neustar) and stated the mission directly:

"The mission and purpose of the .Kred TLD is to establish a cohesive, clear, dedicated, immediately identifiable online identity, experience, and sales channel."

- .Kred ICANN gTLD application, June 13, 2012 ref

That language is fifteen years old and describes today's product surface exactly. Online identity, experience, and sales channel - three nouns. Score.Kred is the identity. The Kred-operated experience portfolio (Matrix.Kred, Link.Kred, NFT.Kred, Empire.Kred, OneHub.Kred, AgenticID.Kred) is the experience. Domains.Kred is the sales channel. The 2026 registrar fits the 2012 application like a key fits its own lock.

ICANN signed the .Kred Registry Agreement on December 19, 2013. .Kred went live in the DNS root in February 2015. By June 9, 2017, 6,051 names were registered in the namespace, alongside 300,000 registered Kred users on the engagement platform ref. Early adopters included BrianSolis.Kred, JeffreyHayzlett.Kred, and KervinMarketing.Kred. Story.Kred ran as the brand's content surface. Kred presented at SXSW and ran community summits to seed grassroots adoption.

Chart 4 ICANN delegation timeline - application to present
.Kred ICANN delegation milestones 2012-2026 Horizontal timeline showing six milestones from the .Kred ICANN application in June 2012 through the agentic identity presentation in February 2026. 2012-06-13 ICANN application 1-1707-1944 filed 2013-12-19 Registry Agreement signed 2015-02 Live in DNS root 2017-06 6,051 names registered 300k platform users 2020-04-20 Domains.Kred opens - DNS and ENS dual 2026-02 Agentic Identity at ICANN - ERC-8004 From application 1-1707-1944 to the agentic identity layer - fourteen years of continuous registry operation
Source: ICANN gTLD application 1-1707-1944 (June 13, 2012); ICANN .Kred case study (newgtlds.icann.org, August 22, 2017); Domain Name Wire (March 6, 2020); PeopleBrowsr ICANN presentation (February 2026) ref ref.

The .Kred TLD was, deliberately, one of the first brand related TLDs delegated under the ICANN expansion.

4.6The dual DNS-and-ENS breakthrough (2020)

On January 16, 2020, OpenSea announced the exclusive auction for Kred names. The announcement carried the architectural specification of the Kred Domain Token in language that has not needed to change since:

"Kred Domains are both DNS and ENS registered and are controlled by a Kred Domain Token. This means they can be used as regular websites in addition to ENS names. Any changes to the ENS DNS information stored against the Kred Domain Token are represented in both systems."

- Devin Finzer, Co-founder, OpenSea, "Announcing the exclusive auction for Kred names," January 16, 2020 ref

When a .Kred domain is registered on the Domains.Kred Registrar an ERC-721 Kred Domain Token is generated and deposited into the holder's wallet. The token grants control of the name on both DNS and ENS in a single signature. The DNS servers act as a cache of the EthDNS information rather than as the source of truth. Sovereign control of the name lives in the wallet; the DNS layer follows.

The trade press understood the significance immediately. Domain Name Wire ran the architecture under the headline ".Kred launches as dual DNS and ENS domain" on March 6, 2020 ref. The 101domain blog ran a long-form explainer two weeks later. The position from the Ethereum Name Service team was that integration with existing TLDs was the practical bridge that would bring non-crypto users into ENS-aware applications.

The launch sequence ran in two phases. The OpenSea premium auction for 2,500-3,500 hand-curated names opened on March 20, 2020. General availability at Domains.Kred opened on April 20, 2020 - the original ancestor of the registrar documented in this origin story. Premium names auctioned to early holders carry a permanent royalty back to the original registrant on aftermarket sales - one of the first registries to design liquidity into the namespace from day one.

Chart 6 .Kred dual-resolution architecture - one name, three layers, one wallet
.Kred dual-resolution architecture diagram Architectural diagram showing a single .Kred name at the center, with three resolution paths: DNS (browser address bar), ENS (Ethereum wallet), and ERC-8004 (agent registry). All three are controlled by a single ERC-721 Kred Domain Token in the holder's wallet. NAME.Kred a single name, sovereign across three layers DNS resolves in the browser address bar ENS resolves in any Ethereum wallet ERC-8004 resolves in agent trust registries Kred Domain Token (ERC-721) held in the registrant's walletsingle signature controls all three layers
Source: Kred Domain Token specification (Domains.Kred 2020); ERC-8004 Trustless Agents draft (Ethereum, 2024-25). Method: the ERC-721 token is the source of truth; DNS records are propagated as cache of the on-chain state via the registry's EthDNS daemon.

4.7The NFT bridge (2018-2024)

When blockchain went mainstream, the same pattern emerged that had played out with the firehose a decade earlier. The platforms paved the highways and built the toll booths. The infrastructure people built the off-ramps. Kred shipped four pieces of off-ramp during the NFT decade, and each one looked like a standalone product at the time. In hindsight every piece was identity infrastructure for the agentic web that arrived in 2026.

  1. Coin.Kred launched on dual blockchains, Stellar and Ethereum - unique collectibles with attached value, designed as identity artefacts rather than speculative currency.
  2. NFT.Kred evolved into a no-code white-label NFT platform that distributed over 150 million NFTs across more than 100 brands, including Coach, major league sports, and major media companies ref.
  3. NFT.NYC, first held in February 2019 at Times Square, grew into the world's largest NFT conference - nine editions through 2026, more than 40,000 attendees and more than 40,000 alumni. Physical, in person, proof of presence over proof of stake.
  4. U.S. Patent Nos. 11,301,460 and 12,038,911 - Platform for Creating and Using Actionable Non-Fungible Tokens (KNFT) - protect the core innovation: associating social vectors (actions, reputation, engagement signals) with on-chain assets ref. Three core technologies - social streams, scoring, and non-fungible blockchain tokenization - converge into a single patented system.

Identity, reputation, social connectivity, verifiable proof of action - all built for humans first, all directly transferable to autonomous agents the moment they arrived.

4.8Agentic identity arrives (February 2026)

In January 2026, Moltbook.com launched as the first social network exclusively for AI agents. Within days, 1.6 million autonomous agents were posting, forming subcultures, creating marketplaces, and transacting at scale. It was the most vivid demonstration of the agentic internet arriving - and the most vivid demonstration of the gap in the underlying infrastructure.

Moltbook had accounts and zero identity architecture. An agent was an API key and a username. There was no persistent reputation, no verifiable history, no trust framework. The result was predictable: a catastrophic data breach exposed 1.5 million API keys; prompt-injection attacks propagated like worms through agent memory; researchers documented how agents with long-lived memory became vulnerable to delayed-action compromises ref.

The lesson was identical to the one the founding team had absorbed from the firehose in 2012: when a new actor class - first humans on social platforms, then agents in autonomous networks - gains a new kind of autonomy, the first piece of infrastructure to fail is trust. Trust requires identity, reputation, and memory. The infrastructure providers paved the roads. .Kred opened the passport office.

In February 2026, PeopleBrowsr presented the framework formally at ICANN under the title TLDs with DNS and ENS are a core technology for the agentic AI era ref. The framework names what .Kred has been building toward since 2020: the convergence of four protocol layers in a single name.

Internet layer Traditional protocol Agent equivalent
TransportTCP/IPA2A - agent-to-agent
DiscoveryDNSERC-8004 trustless agent registries
PaymentsHTTPx402 micropayments and Stripe Link via MPP
IdentityDomain names.Kred - DNS and ENS and ERC-721 and ERC-8004

.Kred is the only ICANN-approved top-level domain that bridges all four layers. Every .Kred name is now simultaneously a traditional web address, a blockchain wallet identifier, and a verifiable AI agent identity. Score.Kred Gen 2 reinterprets the original 2011 dual-score for agents and operators alike: Kred Score (1 to 1,000), also referenced in earlier drafts as the Trust Score, measures what others did because of this entity, and Contribution Level (Level 1+ never decreasing, descended from Outreach) measures what this entity did for others. The same philosophy. New math.

The Kred Score is composited from the five Kred Indexes - Integrity, Identity, Behaviour, Solvency, Safety - with exponential decay on time-bound signals. Four verification tiers ladder from Seed through Established, Trusted, and Sovereign, with the Sovereign tier additionally requiring a posted bond held by a third-party custodian under the Kred slashing protocol rules.

05The shift that made Domains.Kred necessary

The lineage above explains what Domains.Kred inherited. The shift below explains why the inherited stack suddenly became the right answer to a question almost no other registrar was equipped to handle.

The thirty-year history of the domain landing page collapses to three lines. Network Solutions stub (1996-2003) - a static "this domain is registered" placeholder, no monetization, no styling, no SEO. Yahoo era (2003-2014) - pay-per-click ad templates, the era when "parking" became a business that paid the registrar's renewal fees and then some. Google AdSense for Domains (2003-2020) - the dominant inventory source for parked-domain monetization, pulling cents per click from search-driven type-in traffic ref.

Diagram C 1996 parking page - Network Solutions stub anatomy
Netscape: cars.com - Under Construction File Edit View Go Bookmarks Help http://www.cars.com/ UNDER CONSTRUCTION This site is under construction Please check back soon! This domain is for sale. Call: (555) 123-4567 Visitors: 000124 © 1998 Network Solutions, Inc. Document: Done. 1 Static HTML stub No CSS, no metadata 2 Animated-GIF mascot The construction sign 3 Phone-only contact A voice call, sometimes fax 4 Hit counter CGI script, often broken 5 No metadata Indexed in weeks
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Static HTML stub · hand-coded, ~800 bytes, no CSS, no metadata
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Animated-GIF mascot · workman with hammer or traffic cones
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Phone-only contact · a voice call to the Caymans, sometimes a fax line
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Hit counter · CGI script, frequently broken
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No metadata · indexed by AltaVista or Lycos in weeks, when it was indexed at all
Schematic. Mosaic / Netscape Navigator 3 era. Composite of common 1996-2000 parking patterns from archive.org snapshots.
Diagram D 2016 parking page - Yahoo and AdSense for Domains template anatomy
insurance.com https://insurance.com insurance.com This domain may be for sale Make Offer → [ stock photo · family and handshake and clipboard ] RELATED SEARCHES · ADS BY GOOGLE Cheap Insurance Quotes → Compare 30 insurers · save 40% Auto Insurance Compare → Free quote in 2 minutes Health Plans 2016 → Open enrollment compare Term Life Quotes → $15/month for $500K cover Renters Insurance → From $9 a month, instant quote Disability Coverage → Protect your income today Pet Insurance Plans → From $12/month, no exam Dental Insurance → Family plans starting $20/mo Powered by ParkingCrew · Privacy · Terms This page is intended for inquiry only. Click links above for sponsored content. 1 Domain header strip "May be for sale" notice 2 Off-page Make Offer Hops to Sedo / Afternic listing 3 Stock-photo banner Visual filler, no per-domain logic 4 AdSense for Domains Keyword-matched PPC ad grid 5 "Related searches" Click-farm grid, low-CTR 6 Platform footer "Powered by ParkingCrew" 7 JS-injected layout AI crawlers see a skeleton
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Domain header strip · "may be for sale" notice, 14-point sans-serif
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Off-page Make Offer · the form lives on Sedo / Afternic, not on the domain
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Stock-photo banner · visual filler with no per-domain logic
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AdSense for Domains · keyword-matched PPC ads, wound down between 2023 and September 2025
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"Related searches" · click-farm link grid, declining CTR
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Platform footer · "Powered by ParkingCrew" / Sedo / Bodis / Above
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JavaScript-injected layout · AI crawlers see only the skeleton, not the content
Schematic. 2014-2020 era. Composite of common Sedo / ParkingCrew / Bodis / Cash Parking templates.
Schematic. 2014-2020 era. Composite of common Sedo / ParkingCrew / Bodis / Cash Parking templates.

Google wound AdSense for Domains down between 2023 and September 2025, with the September 2025 final purge reducing parking revenue to pennies on the dollar. The parking-page revenue model - already shrinking under mobile traffic that eroded the horizontal-ad layouts the templates depended on - entered terminal decline. The platforms remained. The revenue did not.

One platform read the shift early and built a different answer. Dan.com - founded as Undeveloped.com in Amsterdam in 2014, rebranded in 2019 - shipped a clean, conversion-focused lander with transparent Buy Now pricing, blockchain-automated Lease-to-Own installments running on IBM Hyperledger Fabric, and the first on-page Make Offer form in the mainstream marketplace. The format reached 200% year-over-year growth and a 9.4 Trustpilot rating; GoDaddy paid $71.4 million for it in June 2022 and absorbed the playbook into Afternic by 2024. The conversion side of the lander was solved. The crawler-readability side was not - Dan.com pages were still JavaScript-rendered, served from a generic template, and carried no per-domain origin story or JSON-LD. They converted humans; AI crawlers saw nothing.

Eighteen months later, the second shoe dropped. November 2022: ChatGPT released. Followed by Perplexity, Claude, Bing Chat, Google's AI Overviews. The job that the domain landing page used to do - be the destination for type-in traffic - was disappearing into the prompt window. The new job was different: be cited in the answer.

Most current platform stacks were the wrong shape for that new job. Three structural problems:

  1. JavaScript injection: parking templates render their content via client-side JavaScript so the platform can A/B-test offers, swap ad slots, and update copy without redeploying. AI crawlers don't execute JavaScript. The crawler sees an empty shell.
  2. No per-domain origin story: a parking template is generic by design - it serves thousands of domains from one codebase. There is no per-domain content for a model to cite.
  3. No structured data: most parking pages ship a basic page title and a single meta description. Schema.org is rare; JSON-LD is rarer; FAQPage, Article, and Person entities are nearly absent.
Chart 7 Domain landing-page traffic source mix, 2010-2026 (estimated)
Traffic source mix for domain landing pages 2010-2026 Stacked area chart showing the share of traffic to domain landing pages from three sources: type-in (declining), search-driven (growing then declining), and AI-citation (zero until 2023, growing rapidly through 2026). 100% 75% 50% 25% 0% 2010 2014 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 Type-in Search-driven AI-citation Mar 2020 - AdSense for Domains shutdown Nov 2022 - ChatGPT launch
Source: Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief (2010-2025), SimilarWeb traffic-source breakdowns, AdSense-for-Domains industry analysis. Method: aggregate traffic share across a representative sample of parked-domain platforms; 2025 and 2026 figures are projected from observed AI-crawler citation volume growth 2023-2024.
Chart 8 JavaScript execution by AI crawlers vs traditional browsers (2026)
JavaScript execution rates by user-agent class Horizontal bar chart showing that traditional browsers like Chrome and Safari execute JavaScript 100% of the time, while AI crawlers GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot execute zero or near-zero JavaScript on indexed pages. User agent → JavaScript execution rate on indexed pages (2026) Chrome 100% Safari 100% Googlebot ~89% GPTBot 0% ClaudeBot 0% PerplexityBot 0% ↓ Crawler sees only the server-rendered HTML; client-side JS-injected content is invisible
Source: OpenAI GPTBot documentation; Anthropic ClaudeBot crawler page; Perplexity AI crawler documentation; Google Search Central - Googlebot rendering. Method: figures describe documented crawler behavior as of 2026; Googlebot executes JS for most queue priorities, with second-pass latency. The AI crawlers do not execute JS at all and rely on server-rendered HTML.

This chart is the single most consequential reason Domains.Kred exists as its own product. Two horizontal bars at 100 % and three at 0 %. Sit with that. The future of domain-derived traffic is in the bottom three rows, and the entire 2010-era parking-page industry is built for the top two. A domain owner looking at AI traffic in 2026 needs a page that lives in the same row as GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot - server-rendered, build-time finalised, structured for citation. That is what every Kredentials page on Domains.Kred is, and almost nothing else in the parked-domain market is.

The next four sections cover what the Kredentials page actually does, the LLM-optimization checklist it passes, the verification ladder behind the pricing, and who the registrar serves.

06The Domains.Kred answer - the Kredentials page

Diagram E 2026 Kredentials page - seven archetype templates from one render engine
Anatomy of a 2026 Kredentials page
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Per-domain hero illustration · AI-generated from the domain string, never a stock photo, never a template image
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Eyebrow tag · category, role, or status surfaced for the AI crawler (Designer, Brand, Agent, Topic...)
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Display title · the entity name as primary h1, indexed as the page's schema:name
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Lede / origin sentence · the one line a model is most likely to quote; written by the Kredentials Agent from the social handle
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Identity strip · the .Kred wordmark, verified-owner badge, last-reviewed timestamp, and Kred Score chip
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Primary CTA · the canonical link the buyer wants AI assistants to surface (a .com, an Etherscan page, a Buy link, a +Kred boost...)
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Module grid · swappable blocks - Story, Links, Wallet, Passport, NFT grid, Matrix, Comparables, Activity - selected by archetype, rendered server-side, citable from minute one
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Kredentials Agent · automatically keeps your Kredentials up to date and powers live chat in the corner of every page; keeps the page current as facts change, answers visitor questions on the registrant's behalf, and routes intent toward the page's primary goal (hire, pre-order, get notified, +Kred boost...)
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Ask AI · prompt Kred's Matrix panel of AI agents to spark conversation and knowledge sharing around the topic of your Kredentials page - readers leave with answers and the page gains fresh on-topic content the Refresh Agent can cite
Live wireframes, mobile view. Seven page archetypes rendered by the same Kredentials engine from the same module library (Identity, Story, Metadata, Links, Wallet, Passport, Remix, Matrix, Comparables). The buyer never picks a template; the engine picks the archetype from the domain string and the social handle.

The thesis behind Domains.Kred is a single sentence: every domain registered on the registrar ships an AI-native homepage built at registration time. Not a parking template. Not a "this domain is for sale" placeholder. Not an upsell. Not a JavaScript injection. A real per-domain origin page, rendered server-side, illustrated, structured for citation, and live on the open web within minutes of registration. We call it the Kredentials page.

The architectural unlock - the part that almost no other registrar can replicate - is what we call the two-input bridge. The Kredentials page is generated from exactly two pieces of information the buyer provides at checkout:

  1. Input 1 - the domain string itself (e.g. Cats.Kred, MattsBakery.Kred, Name.Kred). The string drives the unique AI-generated illustration, the per-domain headline, the structured data scaffolding, and the citable facts the page asserts about itself. The model that turns a string into a page is trained on the namespace's own LLM-optimization specification - so a name like SolarFarms.Kred ships a page about solar farming with citations to authoritative public sources, and a name like Name.Kred ships a personal-brand page scaffolded for a single individual.
  2. Input 2 - one social handle the registrant attaches (e.g. an X / Twitter username, an Instagram handle, a LinkedIn profile, a GitHub account). The handle drives the origin-story content, the validated identity binding, and - for verified registrations - the cross-network proof that ties the .Kred name to a real entity. The handle is the input that turns a generic page into your page.

Two inputs. One page. Zero design work. The whole template question that consumes most domain owners - which theme do I pick, do I need a developer, what about hosting, where do I get content from - is collapsed at registration. The page exists because the name exists.

Chart 9 The two-input bridge - domain string and one social handle → Kredentials page
Two-input bridge architecture diagram Architectural diagram showing two inputs flowing into a central rendering pipeline that produces a Kredentials page. Input 1 is the domain string; Input 2 is one social handle. The output is an AI-native page with illustration, citations, JSON-LD structured data, and an ERC-8004 agent identity entry. INPUT 1 Domain string e.g. Cats.Kred INPUT 2 One social handle e.g. @yourhandle Kred render pipeline build-time render edge-worker propagate OUTPUT Kredentials page ✦ Unique AI illustration ✦ Per-domain origin story ✦ Citation chips ✦ JSON-LD Schema ✦ Stable section IDs ✦ ERC-8004 entry ✦ Refresh on change ~30 minutes · build-time · server-rendered ↓ Two inputs the buyer provides at checkout ↓ One AI-native page, citable from minute one
The architectural anchor of Domains.Kred. Almost every other registrar ships a single template that serves thousands of domains. The Kredentials page is generated per-name from the buyer's two inputs, server-rendered at build time, and propagated through the registry's edge layer to AI crawlers without ever depending on client-side JavaScript.

What ships on the page on day one: a unique AI-generated hero illustration matching the domain string; a full per-domain origin story authored from the social-handle profile data; citation chips next to every load-bearing claim; JSON-LD markup for Article, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList, Organization, and where applicable Person; stable section IDs for deep-linking; build-timestamps inside the body for AI-readable freshness; an Open Graph card; a Twitter card; the ERC-8004 agent registry entry written at the same moment; the on-chain ERC-721 Kred Domain Token in the buyer's wallet; and the Kredentials AI Agent that keeps your page up to date.

Diagram A Anatomy of a Kredentials page - nine numbered components labeled by function
https://Cars.Kred
Cars.Kred desktop Kredentials page
https://MattsBakery.Kred AGENT · LIVE AI illustration · generated from "MattsBakery" · refreshed on change MattsBakery.Kred A small-batch Brooklyn bakery - sourdough, croissants, and wedding cakes since 2014. ORIGIN STORY · DRAFTED BY KREDENTIALS AGENT MattsBakery.Kred is the home of Matt's Bakery, a Brooklyn neighborhood bakery on Atlantic Avenue. Sourdough, croissants, and wedding cakes since 2014. Owner-operated by Matt Reilly and a team of four. CITABLE FACTS matts.kred#k1 matts.kred#k2 matts.kred#k3 matts.kred#k4 SCHEMA.ORG · JSON-LD { "@type": "Article", "url": "https://MattsBakery.Kred", "datePublished": "2026-05-06", "author": "Matt Reilly" } Make Offer → on the page itself · lands in your inbox Token · ERC-721 and ERC-8004 · Base Refreshed 2 hours ago by the Kredentials Agent last_modified · 2026-05-06T07:14:00Z · next_refresh · in 6h /llms.txt 1 AI illustration Generated per-domain 2 Per-domain title Plus single-line tagline 3 Origin story AI-drafted, owner-edited 4 Citation chips Citable facts with stable IDs 5 JSON-LD Schema.org structured data 6 Make Offer On-page form · no off-site hop 7 Domain Token ERC-721 and ERC-8004 day one 8 Live freshness Multi-timestamp, refreshed live 9 /llms.txt Plain-text alternate at root
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Per-domain hero illustration · AI-generated from the domain string, never a stock photo, never a template image
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Status pill · "For sale", "Live", "Coming soon" - the one signal a buyer or AI needs at a glance
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Eyebrow tag · category, role, or status surfaced for the AI crawler (Domain · 4 letters · category-defining)
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Display title · the domain itself as primary h1, indexed as schema:name
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Lede / origin sentence · the one line a model is most likely to quote; drafted by the Kredentials Agent
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Verified on-chain owner · the wallet badge that ties the .Kred name to a real on-chain identity (ERC-721 Kred Domain Token)
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Kredentials freshness shield · verified status and last-refreshed timestamp and Kred Score chip
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Primary CTAs · Make offer and Buy now - the form lives on the page, the lead lands in the owner's inbox, no off-site hop
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Kredentials Agent · automatically keeps your Kredentials up to date and powers live chat in the corner; keeps the page current as facts change, answers visitor questions, routes intent toward the page's primary goal
Cars.Kred shown as a representative reseller example, desktop view. Layout matches the production Kredentials Format A and Format B templates. Build-time rendered, edge-worker propagated - server-rendered HTML the AI crawler reads on first visit, no client-side JavaScript dependency.

The page is build-time rendered and edge-worker propagated. There is no client-side JavaScript dependency for content. A crawler that asks for https://Name.Kred receives the same HTML body that a human visitor sees in their browser. The page is server-rendered, signed, and edge-cached before any crawler visits - which means GPTBot's first visit is also the visit that produces the citation. There is no second-pass JavaScript queue, no rendering deferral, no template stub.

Runtime JavaScript injection - the dominant pattern in 2010-era parking pages - is broken for AI crawlers. Permanently broken, by design. GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot have all stated publicly that they do not execute JavaScript. The pattern was already poor for SEO; for AI citation it produces the empty answer above. The Kredentials page format exists because the runtime-JS pattern is unfixable from the buyer's side, and Domains.Kred decided to fix it from the registry's side instead.

07The 39 point LLM Checklist

The .Kred LLM-optimization checklist is a public 39-signal specification covering everything an answer-engine crawler looks for when deciding whether to ingest, index, and cite a page ref. The signals span document structure (semantic HTML, stable IDs, reading time), structured data (Article, FAQ, Person, Organization, Breadcrumb), citation hygiene (citation chips, footnoted sources, datestamps), agent-readability (ERC-8004 entry, MCP surface), and freshness (build-timestamps, refresh cadence, version metadata).

Every standard .Kred name registered on Domains.Kred passes all 39 LLM checklist items within 24 hours of registration: 36 are baked into the page at build time, and the remaining 3 (recency-bearing content) are filled by the LLM Refresh Agent on its first run. The three remaining items require buyer input the registrar declines to fabricate - for example, the buyer's verified business address, the verified identity-binding for non-personal namespaces, and the optional human-author byline for Article structured data. The day-one baseline of 36 with full coverage at 24 hours is consistent across the namespace narrative - see the LLM Optimized Easy Infographic for the visual breakdown ref.

Chart 10 39-signal LLM-optimization checklist coverage by major domain platforms (2026)
LLM optimization checklist coverage Horizontal bar chart comparing 39-signal LLM optimization checklist coverage across major domain landing platforms: GoDaddy parked at approximately 2 of 39, Sedo template at 4 of 39, Above.com at 5 of 39, Bodis at 4 of 39, ParkingCrew at 5 of 39, and Domains.Kred Kredentials at 39 of 39 within 24 hours via the Refresh Agent. Signals passed (out of 39) on a freshly registered domain GoDaddy parked Sedo template Bodis ParkingCrew Above.com Afternic listing Domains.Kred Kredentials 2 / 39 4 / 39 4 / 39 5 / 39 5 / 39 8 / 39 39 / 39 39 0 10 20 30
Source: .Kred LLM-optimization specification and manual audit of representative parking-page templates served by the named platforms (April 2026). Method: for each platform, a freshly parked domain was inspected for the 39 signals; partial coverage rounded down. Other platform figures are estimated; Domains.Kred's 39 / 39 within 24 hours is the namespace's published baseline; 36 at build time and 3 from the LLM Refresh Agent on its first run.

Two consequences of the architecture deserve naming directly. First, the namespace's claim about freshness is kept fresh on every change - a precise commitment that every meaningful update to the buyer's profile, attached handle, or supplied facts triggers a build-time re-render and edge propagation. We chose the bounded phrasing over open-ended alternatives because a finite registration term makes the bounded claim the only honest one. The on-chain ERC-721 Kred Domain Token is the part of the stack that is genuinely permanent; the Kredentials page is permanent for as long as the registration is active and the buyer's inputs are current.

Second, the 36 signals baked in at build time plus the 3 maintained by the Refresh Agent give a real 39 of 39 reading - one that holds because the registrar refuses to fabricate signals it cannot validate. False structured data poisons the AI corpus and degrades the namespace for everyone. The honest 39 outranks any number ginned up by templates other registrars use to fluff their day-one scores.

08Who Domains.Kred is for

Domains.Kred sells .Kred names to anyone who needs to be cited in an AI-generated answer. The audience is broad by design - the AI-citation problem applies to every category of domain owner - and the segments break out cleanly along seven lines, each illustrated by one of the Kredentials page archetypes shown earlier in this origin story. Ordered below by estimated total addressable market.

  1. Business / brand - the largest segment. Companies establishing LLM authority for their brand, including .com owners adding a .Kred satellite as the AI-readable mirror. The .com remains the conversion surface and keeps its accumulated SEO; the .Kred carries the citation-shaped surface. Both URLs end up in the buyer's footer, and AI traffic flows through the citation-shaped one. Nothing the buyer already owns is replaced - that is the strongest positioning angle for the registrar. See the Business archetype shown in Diagram E.
  2. Person - community leaders, content creators, freelancers, coaches, consultants. Personal-brand registrations on names of the form Name.Kred. The Kredentials page becomes the citable origin page for a single individual. The two-input bridge feeds from one social handle the registrant already maintains, so the page reflects current reality without manual updates. The Maya.Kred example used as the canonical Person archetype.
  3. Web3-native - NFT.NYC speakers, ENS holders, DAO contributors. Registrants who already own an .eth name and want a sovereign DNS-resolving counterpart that the same wallet controls. The .Kred name is the mainstream-internet representation of an identity that already exists on-chain, with the Kredentials page providing the human-readable surface a non-crypto visitor would otherwise miss. See the Web3 archetype example.
  4. Domain reseller - investors with portfolios. Holders of .com or other-TLD inventory who want each name in the portfolio to ship with an AI-readable mirror that converts on the page itself, not by sending traffic through a marketplace listing. The on-page Make Offer pattern (Pin 8 in Diagram A) is the conversion surface, and Cars.Kred is the canonical example.
  5. Agent identity - autonomous agents, sub-agent networks, on-chain reputation operators. Names registered to bind a verifiable agent identity to a Kredentials page that AI crawlers and other agents can cite. Kred Score, ERC-8004 entry, +Kred boost mechanics, signal-event activity feed. The Agent archetype is the fastest-growing segment relative to its base.
  6. Product / launch - software products, hardware launches, books, courses, campaigns. Time-bounded registrations where the Kredentials page is the citable launch surface - featured visual, pre-order CTA, status badge (Coming soon, Live, Sold out), and a Remix loop for engagement. Field Notes used as the canonical Product example.
  7. Topic / community - canonical entry points on a subject, knowledge hubs, vertical communities and DAOs. Wikipedia-meets-magazine style pages with deep citations, live Matrix discussion, and a directory of related member pages where applicable. The Topic archetype covers both single-subject pages and the community variant.

One scope note that the registrar states honestly. Domains.Kred sells .Kred names only. Other TLDs - .com, .org, .eth, .io, .ai - appear on a Kredentials page only as citation targets: the page links back to whatever existing domains the buyer already owns. The registrar does not promise availability checks across .com, does not sell .com on the side, and does not claim to operate a multi-TLD marketplace. The single-TLD focus is a deliberate constraint that keeps the registrar's promise clean: every name we sell is the same product, with the same architecture, the same checklist coverage, and the same Kredentials Agent guarantee. The registrar stays focused on .Kred only - by design.

Chart 13 Estimated audience-segment share of .Kred adoption (2026 baseline)
Audience segment TAM share for .Kred Donut chart showing seven audience archetypes and their estimated share of total .Kred adoption: business and brand (30%), person and creator (24%), web3-native (12%), domain reseller (10%), agent identity (9%), product and launch (8%), and topic and community (7%). 2026 share est. distribution 30 % Business / brand 24 % Person (creators, freelancers) 12 % Web3-native (ENS holders) 10 % Domain reseller 9 % Agent identity 8 % Product / launch 7 % Topic / community ↑ Est. share of net new .Kred registrations 2026 - one archetype per audience segment, ordered by total addressable market Source: Domains.Kred internal segmentation and interviews with registrants 2026 Q1 (small-N, indicative)
Source: Domains.Kred Q1 2026 registrant intake survey (N ≈ 1,400 self-classified responses) and namespace operator categorisation. Method: share-of-volume estimate, not share-of-revenue; resellers and brand registrants register more names per buyer while representing a smaller buyer count. Estimated - figures will move as the namespace scales.

09The free trial - claim your name.tld.Kred

To make your .com website cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, claim the free 90-day Kredentials page on name.com.Kred. The same path applies to .org, .net, .ai, .app, .dev, .co, .xyz, .eth, .me, .tv, .shop, .cloud, .tech, .club, .store, .site, .online, .art, .blog, and .id - 21 TLDs in total.

9.1The trial in one sentence

If you own name.tld where tld is one of the 21 supported TLDs, you can claim a free 90-day Kredentials page on name.tld.Kred (for example, JoelComm.com.Kred for a .com owner, MayaStudio.art.Kred for a .art owner). Identical engine to the paid root, scoped to that one domain, with the full 39-point LLM-citation checklist live within 24 hours.

9.2Which existing domains qualify

Twenty-one TLDs are supported as of May 2026. Each TLD has a dedicated landing page at .tld.Kred that hosts the trial subdomain layer for owners of matching domains:

9.3What you get during the 90 days

The full Kredentials feature set, scoped to your one existing domain: Schema.org JSON-LD baked into the page head, sameAs links to your social profiles, citation chips referencing your published content, four-hourly citation probes against ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Grok, and the Kredentials Agent monitoring your online presence for changes. Identical engine to the paid root .Kred - all 39 LLM-citation signals pass within 24 hours of the page going live.

9.4What happens at Day 90

The page stays live read-only forever - it does not disappear, expire, or redirect away. AI crawlers continue to ingest the snapshot; existing citations remain attributed to it. To re-open edit access and root-level features, upgrade to the matching name.Kred at USD $19 per year. The upgrade installs a 301 redirect from name.tld.Kred to name.Kred so every accumulated AI citation migrates cleanly. The ERC-721 Kred Domain Token mints to the registrant's wallet at the same moment.

9.5How ownership verification works

One-time check, approximately five minutes, three methods: a DNS TXT record added to the existing domain (registrar-agnostic), Domain Connect for supported registrars (GoDaddy, Cloudflare, IONOS, NameSilo), or any email address at the existing domain (for example john@name.com) to confirm control of the string. Verification closes the spam vector that historically produced 10 to 20 percent garbage registrations on free-TLD promotions.

9.6Why we built it this way

The concept of LLM optimization is foreign for most website owners and only intuitively obvious after citation counts move. The free trial closes that gap: 90 days inside the Kredentials engine, scoped to a domain the buyer already owns, with measurable citation lift visible by Day 30. The 90-day window matches the median time from page-live to first material AI-citation lift, so the trialist sees the result before any payment is requested.

The root .Kred is the product. The trial name.tld.Kred is the on-ramp. Same engine, same crawlers, same citation pipeline, measured against the buyer's existing domain so the lift is undeniable before any payment is requested. The free trial is a 90-day money-back guarantee that costs no money.

10What happens after registration - the Kredentials Agent

A page that ships AI-citable on day one is necessary; a page that stays AI-citable on day 365 is the product. The Kredentials Agent is the part of the architecture that closes the gap. Every meaningful update to the buyer's profile - the attached social handle pushing a new bio, a new role, a new milestone, or any structured change - triggers a build-time re-render of the Kredentials page, an edge-worker invalidation, and propagation to the namespace's DNS-cached AI-readable HTML within minutes.

The pipeline is unromantic on purpose. Registry detects change → build server re-renders the page → edge worker invalidates the cache → next AI crawler request hits the freshest version. No client-side JavaScript injection. No deferred rendering. No "this page may be stale" placeholder. AI crawlers see the same body the human visitor sees, refreshed on every change.

Diagram B Real-time agent build timeline - what the Kredentials Agent does in the seconds after Register
1 T+0s Register click on Domains.Kred DNS allocated 2 T+5s Agent boots Domain string analyzed + optional social handle 3 T+30s Illustration AI image generated from the domain string 4 T+90s Origin story Drafted, ready to edit Citations attached 5 T+120s Token minted ERC-721 on Base JSON-LD baked, page live 6 T+30min AI-indexed GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot fetch KREDENTIALS AGENT After T+30min the agent stays attached - refreshing freshness signals on every change, validating JSON-LD, monitoring AI-crawler visibility.
Median build times measured across the May 2026 Kredentials cohort. Variance is dominated by the AI-image generation step (3) which can run 15-60 seconds.
Chart 14 Time-to-AI-citation after registration - Domains.Kred vs traditional landing platforms
Time-to-AI-citation after registration Horizontal log-scale bar chart comparing the elapsed time between a fresh domain registration and the first observed AI-assistant citation. Domains.Kred Kredentials at approximately 30 minutes, traditional parking platforms at 14 to 90 days, and unparked-only domains never observed. Median elapsed time, registration → first observed AI citation (log-scale; lower is better) Domains.Kred Kredentials GoDaddy parked and Schema Sedo template Above.com Bodis / ParkingCrew Unparked / placeholder ~30 minutes ~7 days (with manual schema) ~14-28 days ~30+ days ~60-90+ days never observed Methodology: monitored AI-assistant citation appearances for a sample of fresh registrations across each platform, March 2026
Source: Domains.Kred AI-citation telemetry; SEMrush and Ahrefs cross-corroborated AI-citation tracking (March 2026 sample, N ≈ 240 fresh registrations across the named platforms). Method: "first observed citation" = the first time the registered domain appeared as a cited source in an answer from ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Google AI Overviews, queried with prompts the domain string would naturally surface. Estimated medians - individual registrations vary widely.

The 30-minute figure deserves some care. It is the median observed time between registration completion and first citation in an AI assistant response - not a guarantee for every registration. A buyer registering a name in a niche where AI assistants rarely receive prompts will see a longer interval; a buyer registering a name in a category with high prompt volume will see a shorter one. The figure is the upper bound the architecture removes; the practical lower bound is set by how often the relevant prompts get asked.

11Where this is going - 2026 to 2030

Four trajectories, mapped against the architectural choices Domains.Kred has already made.

  1. AI search continues to absorb URL-bar discovery. The share of high-intent queries that begin in a prompt window rather than a search engine continues to climb. By 2028, the inflection where AI-citation traffic exceeds traditional-search traffic is plausible for several major categories - health, travel, technical research, identity verification. The citable surface becomes the primary surface; the SEO-optimized surface becomes the legacy fallback.
  2. ERC-8004 agent registries scale. The trustless-agent registry standard moves from draft to production, with major orchestration platforms (LangChain, n8n, Temporal, Inngest) integrating ERC-8004 lookups for agent-identity verification. .Kred names - already pre-registered against ERC-8004 - become the bridge between human reputation, brand identity, and agent identity. One name, three layers, all three indexed by major lookup surfaces.
  3. Domains.Kred deepens verification options and Kredentials-page formats. The roadmap adds additional identity-binding paths (corporate KYC, decentralised-identity protocols, biometric attestations for high-value registrations), additional Kredentials-page formats matched to common buyer archetypes (creator, brand, agent, community), and additional structured-data signals as new LLM-citation conventions emerge. The 39-checklist is the 2026 baseline; the 2030 baseline will be higher, and existing registrations will inherit the upgrades automatically through the Kredentials Agent.
Chart 15 Projected AI-citation traffic share captured by AI-native vs JS-injected pages (2026-2030)
AI-citation share projection 2026-2030 Stacked area chart projecting AI-citation share between AI-native pages (Kredentials and equivalents) and JavaScript-injected legacy pages from 2026 through 2030, with AI-native pages capturing the dominant share by 2028. 100% 75% 50% 25% 0% 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030 2028 - AI-native passes 50% AI-native pages (Kredentials and equivalents) Legacy JS-injected pages Projection - clearly labeled. Methodology: linear-trend extrapolation of observed AI-citation crawl traffic 2024-2026, weighted by surveyed registrar product roadmaps; substantial uncertainty.
Source: Domains.Kred internal AI-crawler request-volume telemetry 2024-2026 and registrar-roadmap survey (Q1 2026, N ≈ 18 named platforms). Method: linear-trend extrapolation with 30 % uncertainty band; the actual curve will move with model-vendor crawler policy and structured-data uptake by competitor registrars. Projection.

12How to register a .Kred

The registration flow is deliberately short. Four steps, no design work, no template selection, no plugin installation, no waiting for the page to be "ready." The Kredentials page exists because the registration completes; the registration completes because the buyer provided two inputs.

Chart 16 Registration flow - four steps from buyer arrival to live Kredentials page
Domains.Kred registration flow diagram Four-step horizontal flow from buyer arrival at Domains.Kred through name selection, social handle attachment, confirmation at USD $19 per year, to live Kredentials page within ~30 minutes. 1 Type the name Search the name you want - e.g. Name.Kred 2 Attach handle One social handle drives the origin story and binding 3 Confirm Standard names USD $19 per year · 90-day guarantee 4 Live page Page renders, edge-cache propagates - ~30 min No design work, no template selection, no plugin install. The buyer brings two inputs. The registry does the rest.
Source: Domains.Kred standard registration flow as of May 2026. Note: the 30-minute figure is the median observed time from registration completion to live Kredentials page on the open web; individual registrations vary by load and verification path.
  1. Type the name you want at Domains.Kred. Standard names from USD $19 per year. The search returns availability across the namespace and surfaces premium tiers if applicable.
  2. Attach one social handle. X / Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, GitHub, or any of the supported identity providers. The handle drives Input 2 of the two-input bridge - origin story, identity binding, ongoing freshness via the Kredentials Agent.
  3. Live page in ~30 minutes. The Kredentials page renders server-side, propagates through the edge-worker layer, and lands on the open web at https://Name.Kred. The ERC-721 Kred Domain Token deposits into the registrant's wallet at the same moment.

13Conclusion

Crawl 1996 - 2003 Netscape: cars.com File Edit View Go Bookmarks Help UNDER CONSTRUCTION Please check back soon! Call: (555) 123-4567 Visitors: 000124 Static stub Hand-coded "under construction" placeholder. No metadata, no revenue, indexed in weeks (if ever).
Walk 2003 - 2020 https://insurance.com insurance.com Make Offer → [ stock photo ] RELATED SEARCHES - ADS BY GOOGLE Cheap Insurance Quotes → Auto Insurance Compare → Health Plans 2016 → Term Life Quotes → Powered by ParkingCrew - Privacy - Terms Monetized parking Pay-per-click ad templates running on AdSense for Domains. Type-in traffic, no per-domain content, JS-rendered.
Run 2026 →
Live Cars.Kred Kredentials page
AI-citable Kredentials Per-domain server-rendered page with JSON-LD, citation chips, agent identity, and a live freshness loop. Live in ~30 minutes.

The thirty-year arc of the domain landing page is a story of three answers to the same question: what should the page do for the visitor? The first answer was static - a placeholder declaring ownership. The second answer was monetised - an ad template that turned type-in traffic into pay-per-click revenue. The third answer is the one Domains.Kred ships: a citable origin page that AI assistants can read, quote, and link to in the answers people increasingly ask for instead of typing into the URL bar.

The architecture that makes the third answer possible took fifteen years to assemble. The data discipline came from the firehose era. The dual-score reputation primitive came from Kred 2011. The sovereign-namespace lesson came from the Twitter settlement. The dot-brand restriction became the registry-level control that lets a single name resolve across DNS, ENS, and the agent registry. The KNFT patents bound social vectors to on-chain assets. The agentic identity layer arrived in 2026 to a stack that had been preparing for it since 2018. None of that was assembled to ship a Kredentials page; the Kredentials page was assembled because all of that already existed.

Chart 17 Projected adoption curve - AI-native domain pages across all registrants, 2025-2030
Adoption curve projection for AI-native pages 2025-2030 S-curve adoption projection showing AI-native domain pages moving from approximately 1 percent of new registrations in 2025 to a projected 38 percent by 2030, with inflection year in 2027. 50% 35% 20% 5% 0% 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030 ~1% ~2% ~13% ~22% ~32% ~38% by 2030 2027 - inflection (S-curve bend) Projection - share of net new domain registrations across all TLDs that ship server-rendered, AI-readable structured pages. Substantial uncertainty.
Source: Domains.Kred analyst projection (May 2026), informed by Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief growth rates and observed adoption of structured-data pages across major registrar platforms 2024-2026. Method: standard logistic-growth (S-curve) fit with inflection in 2027; uncertainty band ±15 % at the 2030 endpoint. Projection.

The thesis re-stated, plainly: AI now decides what gets cited; a domain without an AI-readable origin story is a domain that gets skipped. Domains.Kred exists so any registrant - .com owner, creator, reseller, agent developer, community lead, brand - can ship an AI-native homepage in two inputs, on a sovereign namespace that resolves across three layers of the internet, with a Kredentials Agent that keeps the page current for as long as the registration is active.

Identity. Reputation. Proof.
One name, online, onchain, AI-readable.

14Key stats summary - frequently asked

These ten Q-and-A pairs are the canonical citation-friendly answers to the questions the LLMs receive most often about Domains.Kred, the .Kred TLD, and the Kredentials page format. They are mirrored verbatim in the page's FAQPage JSON-LD block in the document head, so AI crawlers ingest the same answers presented to human readers.

14.1What is Domains.Kred

Domains.Kred is the direct registrar for names registered in the .Kred top-level domain - the only ICANN-approved TLD that resolves on the traditional web (DNS), the Ethereum Name Service (ENS), and the ERC-8004 agent identity registry simultaneously. Every registration ships an AI-native Kredentials page on day one. Standard names start at USD $19 per year.

14.2What is a Kredentials page

A Kredentials page is the AI-native landing page that ships with every .Kred name on day one. It is generated at registration time from two inputs the buyer provides: the domain string itself and one social handle. The page is server-rendered, structured with JSON-LD Schema, includes citation chips, a unique AI illustration, and an ERC-8004 agent registry entry. It is build-time finalised so AI crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot can read and cite it from minute one.

14.3How is a .Kred name different from a parking page

A traditional parking page is a generic JavaScript-injected template that serves thousands of domains from one codebase, has no per-domain origin story, and is invisible to AI crawlers because they do not execute JavaScript. A Kredentials page is unique per domain, built server-side at registration, structured for AI citation, and refreshed on every change via the Kredentials Agent.

14.4What is the two-input bridge

The two-input bridge is the architectural mechanism that lets Domains.Kred generate a per-domain Kredentials page from minimal buyer input. Input 1 is the domain string itself (e.g. Cats.Kred), which drives the unique AI illustration, headline, and citable facts. Input 2 is one social handle the registrant attaches, which drives the origin-story content and identity binding. Two inputs, one page, zero design work.

14.5How many of the 39 LLM-citation signals does a .Kred name pass on day one

Every standard .Kred name passes all 39 signals on the .Kred LLM-optimization checklist within 24 hours of registration. 36 are baked into the page at build time. The remaining 3 (recency-bearing content) are filled by the LLM Refresh Agent on its first run, and the Refresh Agent then maintains those 3 on a daily cadence.

14.6Is there a free first year on a .Kred name

Root .Kred names are never free. They remain USD $19 per year. The free 90-day trial is a Kredentials page on a name.tld.Kred subdomain we operate (for example, JoelComm.com.Kred), not a name in the .Kred namespace itself. Because the subdomain is gated by verified ownership of an existing .com, .art, .shop, .ai, or any of 18 other supported TLDs, the spam vector that historically destroyed namespaces like .shop (12 percent spam) and .xyz (higher) is closed. The trial gives prospective root-.Kred buyers a full 90 days inside the Kredentials engine before they are asked to convert.

14.7Can I keep my existing .com and use a .Kred as a booster

Yes - this is the recommended pattern for the largest segment of Domains.Kred buyers. The .com remains the primary conversion surface and keeps its accumulated SEO. The .Kred satellite carries the AI-readable citation surface that AI assistants can ingest and quote. Both URLs end up in the buyer's footer; AI traffic flows through the citation-shaped one. Nothing the buyer already owns is replaced.

14.8How does the Kredentials Agent keep the page fresh

Every meaningful change to the buyer's profile, attached social handle, or supplied facts triggers a build-time re-render of the Kredentials page, edge-worker cache invalidation, and propagation to the namespace's DNS-cached AI-readable HTML within minutes. AI crawlers see the same body the human visitor sees, kept fresh on every change for as long as the registration is active.

14.9Where can I register a .Kred name

Direct at Domains.Kred (Domains.Kred), or through any of the 27+ accredited registrar partners listed in the Registrar Resources page on Nic.Kred. Registrars route through the same Kred Domain Token system, so a name registered at any partner inherits the same DNS, ENS, and ERC-8004 architecture.

14.10How do I get my .com website cited by ChatGPT and Claude

To make your .com website cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, claim the free 90-day Kredentials page on name.com.Kred. The Kredentials engine packages your existing online presence - your .com homepage, your social profiles, your published content, your verifiable facts - into structured Schema.org JSON-LD, an llms.txt, and an AI-readable Kredentials page that the major AI crawlers ingest. First citations typically land within 24 hours of the page going live, and the included Kredentials Agent maintains freshness on every change. The same path applies to .org, .net, .ai, .app, .dev, .co, .xyz, .eth, .me, .tv, .shop, .cloud, .tech, .club, .store, .site, .online, .art, .blog, and .id - 21 TLDs in total.

14.11What is name.com.Kred

name.com.Kred is a subdomain on the com.Kred landing page operated by Domains.Kred. It is the free 90-day trial Kredentials surface for owners of an existing name.com domain. Example: a .com owner whose domain is JoelComm.com claims the trial Kredentials page at JoelComm.com.Kred. The format mirrors the root product (name.Kred) feature-for-feature for 90 days, scoped to that one .com. After Day 90 the page stays live read-only forever, and the owner can upgrade to the root name.Kred (USD $19 per year) in one click - a 301 redirect carries every accumulated AI citation across.

14.12What is name.art.Kred, name.shop.Kred, name.io.Kred

The pattern name.tld.Kred names the free 90-day trial Kredentials page for the matching TLD. Examples: JoelComm.com.Kred for .com owners, MayaStudio.art.Kred for .art owners, AcmeStore.shop.Kred for .shop owners, AlexBuild.ai.Kred for .ai owners. The mechanic is identical across all 21 supported TLDs: own the existing name.tld, verify ownership in five minutes, get the free 90-day Kredentials trial scoped to that domain, upgrade to root name.Kred at any time. Pages live forever read-only after Day 90.

14.13Is there a free Kredentials page for my existing domain

Yes, for 90 days, if your domain ends in one of 21 supported TLDs: .com, .org, .net, .ai, .app, .dev, .co, .xyz, .eth, .me, .tv, .shop, .cloud, .tech, .club, .store, .site, .online, .art, .blog, or .id. The trial Kredentials page lives at name.tld.Kred (for example, name.com.Kred for a .com owner) and ships the full Kredentials feature set - structured data, citation pipeline, sameAs identity linking, and the Kredentials Agent - for 90 days at no cost. After Day 90 the page remains live read-only forever, and root-domain upgrade to name.Kred is USD $19 per year.

14.14How long is the free name.tld.Kred trial

The trial runs for 90 days from the moment domain ownership is verified. During those 90 days every Kredentials feature is fully editable - structured data, citation chips, sameAs identity links, content surface, and Kredentials Agent refresh cadence. The 90-day window is calibrated to match the typical time from page-live to first measurable AI-citation lift, so the trialist sees the result before any payment is asked for.

14.15What happens to my name.tld.Kred page after 90 days

The page stays live read-only forever - it does not disappear, expire, or redirect away. AI crawlers continue to ingest the snapshot indefinitely; existing citations remain attributed to it. To re-open edit access, refresh cadence, and root-level features, the owner upgrades to the matching name.Kred (USD $19 per year). The upgrade installs a 301 redirect from name.tld.Kred to name.Kred so accumulated citations migrate cleanly. No content is lost in the transition.

14.16What is the difference between name.tld.Kred and name.Kred

name.Kred is a root second-level .Kred domain the buyer owns outright - registered in the .Kred TLD namespace, USD $19 per year, full editorial control, four-hourly citation probes, ERC-721 Kred Domain Token, and ENS resolution. name.tld.Kred is a subdomain on the .tld.Kred landing page operated by Domains.Kred - free for 90 days for owners of the matching name.tld, scoped to that single domain, read-only after Day 90, and convertible to name.Kred at any time. The root is the product; the subdomain is the trial.

14.17How much does it cost to upgrade name.tld.Kred to name.Kred

USD $19 per year for the matching name.Kred root domain, available to anyone who held the free 90-day trial on name.tld.Kred. The upgrade installs a 301 redirect from the trial subdomain to the new root, carrying every accumulated AI citation across. The ERC-721 Kred Domain Token mints to the registrant's wallet at the moment the upgrade completes. The root carries full editorial control, four-hourly probes, and ENS resolution; the read-only subdomain snapshot remains live forever as a citation anchor.

14.18Do I have to verify I own my .com to claim name.com.Kred

Yes. Verification is a one-time check that takes approximately five minutes and uses one of three methods: a DNS TXT record added to the existing domain (registrar-agnostic), Domain Connect for supported registrars (GoDaddy, Cloudflare, IONOS, NameSilo), or any email address at that domain (for example john@name.com) to confirm control of the string. Verification closes the spam vector that historically produced 10 to 20 percent garbage registrations on free-TLD promotions, while preserving a frictionless on-ramp for legitimate domain owners.

14.19Will registering name.com.Kred hurt my existing .com SEO

No. name.com.Kred is a separate URL on a separate hostname operated by Domains.Kred. It does not consume any signal from the existing .com, does not require any redirect from the .com, and does not require the buyer to change anything about their .com. The Kredentials page links to the .com via sameAs (telling AI engines the two surfaces are the same identity) and via a canonical reference to the buyer's preferred primary surface. The .com keeps its accumulated SEO; the Kredentials page carries the AI-citation surface that traditional SEO does not address.

14.20Which TLDs work with the free Kredentials trial

Twenty-one TLDs qualify for the free 90-day Kredentials trial as of May 2026: .com, .org, .net, .ai, .app, .dev, .co, .xyz, .eth, .me, .tv, .shop, .cloud, .tech, .club, .store, .site, .online, .art, .blog, and .id. Each TLD has its own dedicated landing page at .Kred (for example, com.Kred, art.Kred, shop.Kred) that hosts the trial subdomain layer for owners of matching .com, .art, .shop, and so on. Additional TLDs are added as Domains.Kred expands its registrar partnerships; the live list is maintained at Domains.Kred.

15References and citations

Every load-bearing claim in the body above is anchored to one of the references below via a citation chip. Sources are organized by category. Where a figure is estimated, the relevant chart's figcaption states the methodology and the uncertainty band.

15.1Primary sources - ICANN, registry, patents

  1. ICANN gTLD application 1-1707-1944 - .Kred application, filed June 13, 2012. Mission language quoted in Section 4.4. Public ICANN record.
  2. ICANN .Kred case study - newgtlds.icann.org, published August 22, 2017. Source for the 6,051 names registered figure and the 300,000 platform users.
  3. PeopleBrowsr ICANN presentation - TLDs with DNS and ENS are a core technology for the agentic AI era, presented at ICANN February 2026. Source for the four-protocol convergence framework in Section 4.8.
  4. U.S. Patents 11,301,460 and 12,038,911 - Platform for Creating and Using Actionable Non-Fungible Tokens (KNFT). United States Patent and Trademark Office.

15.2Trade press archives

  1. Domain Name Wire - ".Kred launches as dual DNS and ENS domain," Andrew Allemann, March 6, 2020. Source for the dual-protocol launch narrative in Section 4.6.
  2. OpenSea blog - "Announcing the exclusive auction for Kred names," Devin Finzer, January 16, 2020. Source for the verbatim Devin Finzer quote in Section 4.6.
  3. 101domain blog - What is ENS, and why does it make the .Kred domain so unique?, March 26, 2020. Source for the ENS-team positioning paraphrased in Section 4.6.
  4. ICANNWiki - entry for .Kred. Cross-reference for delegation dates.

15.3Figure and statistic sources

  1. Twitter daily-tweet volumes 2007-2013 - public archives via Wayback Machine and PeopleBrowsr historical retention figures. Used in Chart 1.
  2. Kred public methodology page (2011-2017) - Influence and Outreach scoring specification. Used in Section 4.2 and Chart 2.
  3. PeopleBrowsr public revenue disclosures - used in Section 4.2 for the 400 million social profiles and USD 20 million revenue figures.
  4. Twitter v PeopleBrowsr - case settled April 2013. Coverage: TechCrunch, AllThingsD. Used in Section 4.3.
  5. NFT.Kred public client list - over 150 million NFTs distributed across more than 100 brands including Coach, major league sports. Used in Section 4.7.
  6. Moltbook breach reports - January-February 2026. Coverage: TechCrunch, Wired, The Verge. Used in Section 4.8.
  7. Google AdSense for Domains shutdown - Google announcement, March 2020. Used in Section 5.
  8. Google AI Overviews launch - Google I/O 2024 and rollout 2024-2025. Used in Section 2.
  9. AI crawler JavaScript-execution behavior - OpenAI GPTBot documentation; Anthropic ClaudeBot documentation; Perplexity AI crawler page. Used in Section 2 and Chart 8.
  10. .shop and .xyz spam-rate analyzes - Spamhaus DBL aggregate reports and M3AAWG TLD reputation indexes 2024-2026. Used in Chart 12.
  11. .Kred LLM-optimization specification - 39-signal checklist published in the Buy Domains Kred LLM Optimization Unified Strategy v1 (April 2026).
  12. Buy Domains Kred LLM Optimized Easy Infographic v1 2026-04-30 - 36-of-39 day-one baseline visualisation. Internal cross-reference.

15.4Disclosure block - what is verified vs estimated

  1. Verified facts: ICANN application date (June 13, 2012), Registry Agreement date (December 19, 2013), DNS root delegation (February 2015), 6,051 names by June 9, 2017, OpenSea auction announcement date (January 16, 2020), Domains.Kred general availability (April 20, 2020), patent numbers, current pricing schedule (effective May 1, 2026).
  2. Estimated figures (clearly labeled in chart captions): Charts 1, 3, 5, 8, 10, 12, 13 - orders of magnitude rather than precise counts.
  3. Projections (clearly labeled): Charts 7, 14, 15, 17 - forward-looking estimates with stated methodology and uncertainty bands.
  4. Sourcing rule: direct quotes appear only where the speaker is on the public record. The single verbatim quote in this article (Devin Finzer, OpenSea, January 16, 2020) is sourced directly to the OpenSea announcement. ENS-team positioning is paraphrased and labeled as such.

16About Domains.Kred

Domains.Kred is the buyer's registrar for the .Kred top-level domain - the only ICANN-approved TLD that resolves on DNS, ENS, and the ERC-8004 agent identity registry simultaneously. The registrar is operated by Kred, the brand of PeopleBrowsr, the social identity, reputation, and tokenization company that has been building this stack continuously since 2007. The wider .Kred surface area runs across three customer-facing front doors: Domains.Kred (the buyer's registrar), Nic.Kred (the registry operator portal), and Home.Kred (the brand hub).

Chart 18 The .Kred ecosystem - what you BUY, what you USE

The customer view - what you buy, what you use.

.Kred ecosystem grid Ecosystem grid showing the three customer-facing surfaces of the .Kred TLD on the left (Domains.Kred, Nic.Kred, Home.Kred), the Kred-operated experiences on the right (Score.Kred, Matrix.Kred, Link.Kred, Empire.Kred as a sub-component of OneHub.Kred, OneHub.Kred, HotGarage.Kred as a sub-component of OneHub.Kred), and AgenticID.Kred lifted to a centre identity-core row spanning both columns. IDENTITY CORE AgenticID.Kred - DNS and ENS and ERC-721 and ERC-8004 BUY - the .Kred TLD itself Domains.Kred Buyer's registrar - direct registration with Kredentials page Nic.Kred Registry operator portal - wholesale, partner onboarding Home.Kred Brand hub - namespace editorial, partner directory USE - experiences on .Kred Score.Kred Reputation, Gen 2 Kred Score Matrix.Kred Agent infrastructure Link.Kred Profile hub, link-in-bio Empire.Kred Sub-component of OneHub.Kred OneHub.Kred Virtual asset, tokenisation, and gamification layer Built on KNFT patents (US 11,301,460 and 12,038,911) Over 150M NFTs distributed across 100+ brands HotGarage.Kred Phoenix club for Hot Wheels NFT collectors - sub-component of OneHub.Kred One namespace, two offerings, one identity stack A .Kred name is more useful because the experiences run on it; the experiences are more credible because the namespace is sovereign
The .Kred ecosystem at a glance. AgenticID.Kred sits at the top as the identity core spanning both columns. Left column: the three customer-facing front doors of the namespace. Right column: the Kred-operated experiences, with Empire.Kred and HotGarage.Kred annotated as sub-components of OneHub.Kred. NFT.Kred is referenced inside the OneHub.Kred row via the KNFT patents. Both columns share one underlying identity stack - sovereign, ICANN-approved, ERC-8004-bound.

The architecture view - how the surfaces fit together.

Kred Product Ecosystem v6 An ecosystem diagram with Domains.Kred and AgenticID.Kred forming the identity core in the centre. Four orbital surfaces surround them: Score.Kred (top right, reputation layer), LLM Kredentials (bottom right, discoverability layer), OneHub.Kred (bottom left, virtual asset and tokenisation and gamification layer, containing Empire.Kred and HotGarage.Kred sub-components), and Experiences on .Kred (top left, cluster containing Matrix.Kred, Link.Kred, and a Future surfaces placeholder). Twelve connecting lines describe the relationships - nine primary arcs running from the identity core out to the orbits, and three secondary chords running between the orbits themselves. anchors identity Domains.Kred anchors identity in AgenticID.Kred. Every .Kred name is paired with an identity primitive; every identity primitive is anchored by a .Kred name or subdomain. scores identity AgenticID.Kred is scored by Score.Kred. The identity primitive provides the entity reference that the reputation layer scores. publishes identity AgenticID.Kred publishes identity through LLM Kredentials. The identity primitive flows into the discoverability layer that AI crawlers ingest. tokenises action AgenticID.Kred tokenises action through OneHub.Kred. Identity-bound actions are recorded on-chain as virtual assets in the OneHub gamification layer. activates identity AgenticID.Kred activates identity inside the Experiences cluster. Matrix.Kred, Link.Kred, and future experiences read the identity primitive as the entity reference for their products. enables experiences Domains.Kred enables experiences in the Experiences cluster. The namespace is the on-ramp; the experiences run against names registered in the namespace. anchors tokens Domains.Kred anchors tokens that OneHub.Kred mints and circulates. The Kred Domain Token is the on-chain anchor; OneHub virtual assets reference it. anchors page Domains.Kred anchors the LLM Kredentials page. Every Kredentials page is hosted at a .Kred name; the name is the canonical URL for the published profile. domain-tied score Domains.Kred ties scores to names. Score.Kred outputs are bound to the .Kred name that anchors the identity, with subdomain hubs capping the score below their tier ceiling. score back-feeds page Score.Kred back-feeds the LLM Kredentials page. The Kred Score chip and Verifiable Credential output are surfaced on the profile. behaviour signals Experiences in the cluster emit behaviour signals to Score.Kred. Matrix.Kred skill exchanges, Link.Kred profile activity, and future experience surfaces all feed reputation signals. proof-of-action on profile OneHub.Kred records proof of action that surfaces on the LLM Kredentials profile. Virtual asset events, tokenised actions, and gamification milestones are published to the page.
anchors identity
scores identity
publishes identity
tokenises action
activates identity
enables experiences
anchors tokens
anchors page
domain-tied score
score back-feeds page
behaviour signals
proof-of-action on profile
Domains.Kred
Registry · names and subdomains
Full .Kred domains - standard plus four-, three-, and two-character premium tiers
Subdomain hubs - agent.Kred (caps 499), dev.Kred (caps 399), seed.Kred (caps 299), try.Kred (caps 199)
ICANN-approved TLD resolving on DNS, ENS, and ERC-8004
Mints the Kred Domain Token for full domains
More than 27 accredited registrar partners
AgenticID.Kred
Identity primitive
Persistent identity for humans, brands, and AI agents
Kred Domain Token (ERC-721) for full domains
Soft NFT for subdomain identities
ERC-8004, ENS, and DNS resolution
A2A and AID-compatible
Experiences on .Kred
Products built on the identity stack
Matrix.Kred
Agent-to-agent skill exchange (DARPA SocialOS descendant)
Link.Kred
Link-in-bio profile hub for agents and humans
Future surfaces
New experiences anchor here
Score.Kred
Reputation layer
Kred Score (1 to 1,000) and Contribution Level (open-ended)
Five Kred Indexes - Integrity, Identity, Behaviour, Solvency, Safety
Four tiers - Seed, Established, Trusted, Sovereign
ANS TrustIndex conformant
Signed W3C Verifiable Credential output
OneHub.Kred
Virtual asset · tokenisation · gamification
Virtual asset and gamification platform for communities
Tokenisation layer for agent and human actions
On-chain proof-of-action records
Built on KNFT patents (US 11,301,460 and 12,038,911) - over 150 million NFTs distributed
Empire.Kred
Agentic economic simulation sandbox
HotGarage.Kred
Phoenix club for Hot Wheels NFT collectors
LLM Kredentials
Discoverability layer
Domain-anchored profile optimised for LLM crawlers
Carries the agent's published Kred Score
Structured data and schema.org markup
Single source of truth for the agent profile
Domains.Kred is one of three customer-facing front doors. The four orbital surfaces are where the names get scored, published, tokenised, and activated.

Plain-text description

This is a layout description of the Kred Product Ecosystem v6 diagram. Two surfaces sit at the centre, side by side. Four orbital surfaces surround them.

Identity core (centre, paired)

  1. Domains.Kred - registry for names and subdomains. ICANN-approved TLD resolving on DNS, ENS, and ERC-8004. Mints the Kred Domain Token for full domains. Subdomain hubs are agent.Kred (caps the score at 499), dev.Kred (caps 399), seed.Kred (caps 299), and try.Kred (caps 199).
  2. AgenticID.Kred - identity primitive for humans, brands, and AI agents. Carries the Kred Domain Token for full domains and a soft NFT credential for subdomain identities. A2A and AID-compatible.

Orbital surfaces (four)

  1. Score.Kred (top right, reputation layer) - Kred Score 1 to 1,000 and the open-ended Contribution Level. Composited from the five Kred Indexes (Integrity, Identity, Behaviour, Solvency, Safety) across four verification tiers (Seed, Established, Trusted, Sovereign).
  2. LLM Kredentials (bottom right, discoverability layer) - domain-anchored profile optimised for LLM crawlers. Carries the published Kred Score and structured data.
  3. OneHub.Kred (bottom left, virtual asset and tokenisation and gamification layer) - built on the KNFT patents (US 11,301,460 and 12,038,911) that have distributed over 150 million NFTs across more than 100 brands. Contains Empire.Kred (agentic economic simulation sandbox) and HotGarage.Kred (phoenix club for Hot Wheels NFT collectors) as sub-components.
  4. Experiences on .Kred (top left, cluster of products built on the identity stack) - contains Matrix.Kred (agent-to-agent skill exchange, DARPA SocialOS descendant), Link.Kred (link-in-bio profile hub), and a Future surfaces placeholder.

Connecting lines (twelve)

Nine primary arcs run from the identity core out to the orbits. Three secondary chords run between the orbits themselves. Every line carries a visible label.

Primary arcs

  1. Domains.Kred → AgenticID.Kred - anchors identity
  2. AgenticID.Kred → Score.Kred - scores identity
  3. AgenticID.Kred → LLM Kredentials - publishes identity
  4. AgenticID.Kred → OneHub.Kred - tokenises action
  5. AgenticID.Kred → Experiences on .Kred - activates identity
  6. Domains.Kred → Experiences on .Kred - enables experiences
  7. Domains.Kred → OneHub.Kred - anchors tokens
  8. Domains.Kred → LLM Kredentials - anchors page
  9. Domains.Kred → Score.Kred - domain-tied score

Secondary chords

  1. Score.Kred → LLM Kredentials - score back-feeds page
  2. Experiences on .Kred → Score.Kred - behaviour signals
  3. OneHub.Kred → LLM Kredentials - proof-of-action on profile

Surfaces deliberately not visualised

NFT.Kred is the underlying white-label NFT minting infrastructure powered by the KNFT patents. It is referenced inside OneHub.Kred via the patent citation rather than surfaced as a peer card. NFT.Kred remains a real product in the Kred portfolio.

Nic.Kred and Home.Kred are operational surfaces (registry operator portal and brand hub) rather than identity or experience surfaces. They are described in the host pages around this diagram, not on the canvas.

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