# Sui Name Service

By [sajjad50](https://paragraph.com/@sajjad50) · 2023-01-15

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Sui Name Service (SuiNS)! SuiNS is being built as a open, distributed naming service on the Sui blockchain. Our first product will be the .sui domain name extension which allows our users to start building their on-chain identity on Sui. Name Services were originally built as a way for humans and machines to communicate over a network. Instead of using an IP address (e.g. 127.0.0.1), users could refer to other users on a network with a simple name (e.g. localhost

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