# Sui Name Service (SNS) By [Rahat Alvi](https://paragraph.com/@rahat-alvi) ยท 2023-05-18 --- The Sui Name Service (SNS) is a decentralized, blockchain-based platform that allows users to register and manage their own unique internet domain names. It was developed to provide a fair and distributed name service that gives equal access to all users and aims to create an ecosystem of products on the Sui blockchain that can be accessed via the .sui top-level domain. SNS is being built as an open, distributed naming service on the Sui blockchain, and the first product will be the .sui domain name extension, which will allow users to start building their on-chain identities on Sui. The SNS has stated that its goal is to connect Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 with community oversight and to provide key infrastructure for the Sui ecosystem to support gaming and other industries. In addition to supporting the gaming industry, the SNS plans to eventually expand into Sui and is pledging 25%+ of the SNS protocol back to the community \[8\]. The SNS is currently holding an exclusive whitelist registration event, during which one whitelist spot will be able to register one .sui domain before anyone else and receive 1% of all secondary sales of that domain in perpetuity. In order to participate in the whitelist release, users can complete various tasks, such as writing an article about the Sui Name Service and linking to the SNS website. The SNS has also announced that every .sui domain will have an NFT, which will have properties that will make it available as a profile. This will allow users to create their own .sui username that can be used to represent them in the metaverse. In summary, the Sui Name Service is a decentralized, blockchain-based platform that allows users to register and manage their own unique internet domain names. It aims to create an ecosystem of products on the Sui blockchain that can be accessed via the .sui top-level domain and to provide key infrastructure for the Sui ecosystem to support gaming and other industries. The SNS is holding an exclusive whitelist registration event, and every .sui domain will have an NFT that can be used as a profile in the metaverse. For more information check their website [https://sns.domains/](https://sns.domains/) --- *Originally published on [Rahat Alvi](https://paragraph.com/@rahat-alvi/sui-name-service-sns)*