# .x Domains

By [Meta East](https://paragraph.com/@mattheweastman) · 2022-07-16

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I help a friend with his 2.0 website at Clearshowerxl.com so I thought I would go ahead and reserve some web3 domains for him. The .x is under the unstoppable domains company and is built off the polygon network.

I also ended up buying my name as well. I like the .x because its clean. Now I also have mattheweastman.eth as well

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/989b191fd40b5a5ecb79dffc4a9616140180c48efcbb4714a1759396dbde7dbc.png)

This was much cheaper than ENS domains. With my .eth domain, I made a few super costly mistakes.. whereas the mistakes on the polygon network only cost me a buck or two.

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/bd3e2f529c9a4233b06a9a16a469c03de7ad23f0e000d8a9de1e63f3eef7333c.png)

I was able to mint these .x domains easily on the polygon blockchain.

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As far as launching a website on this protocol.. I think we are still a bit early for all that. I followed the website instructions to publish a simple html page on the blockchain.

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[https://support.unstoppabledomains.com/support/solutions/articles/48001186078-add-an-ipfs-hash-to-your-domain](https://support.unstoppabledomains.com/support/solutions/articles/48001186078-add-an-ipfs-hash-to-your-domain)

Then went to add a redirect from your normal domain to this domain.

[https://support.unstoppabledomains.com/support/solutions/articles/48001185919-redirect-to-traditional-domain](https://support.unstoppabledomains.com/support/solutions/articles/48001185919-redirect-to-traditional-domain)

It never really worked for me until later I figured out you need to have this extension to see .x domains. So this leads me to believe we just aren’t there yet with UX and blockchain-enabled browsers.

[https://unstoppabledomains.com/extension](https://unstoppabledomains.com/extension)

anyway.. maybe we will use this in the future QmNurkrTkEnjDQt7oACneAi9NhoRyJMerHVf2mJsY1DHoW

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*Originally published on [Meta East](https://paragraph.com/@mattheweastman/x-domains)*