we all know and love ic0.app as the main tool of Icp, so why don’t we mate our dapps to an ic0 url?
ic0.io will be maintained by Bitcorn labs and we will forward prefix’s of daos and known dapps upon request. Currently we have redirected via team request:
So here’s what we are thinking:
Sns/developer projects get their URLs
Longterm known non sns projects can get URLs by request
We will accept bids for the following URLs from legitimate parties:
btc.ic0. io
ai.ic0. io
bitcoin.ic0. io
forum.ic0. io
game.ic0. io
cloud.ic0. io
Ic0.ai
A dapp will be published soon with a directory of the URLs.
If anybody has thoughts or opinions we would love to here it as this is all very new
A repository has been published where users can submit pull request for url forwarding.
As this grows, we will commit the marketplace/dapp here.
This is going to take a considerable amount of work and we are looking at implementing some existing ICRC standards as well as custom web2 infra to do this correctly.
Similarity to Official Domains: The domain ic0.io closely resembles DFINITY’s official domain ic0.app. Users might mistakenly trust it, assuming it is officially managed by DFINITY.
Lack of Control: Projects cannot control the behavior of these domain resolutions, such as wallet.ic0.io or oisy.ic0.io, which are not managed by the Oisy wallet team.
Potential for Malicious Redirection: If such domains become widely adopted, they could be redirected to malicious data sources, leading to unforeseen consequences. For example, an AI Agent might use swap.ic0.io/xxxxxx to fetch incorrect token prices and execute transactions based on faulty data.
If you like this approach, feel free to disregard my comments—but always do your own research.
For the record, we spoke to 99% of the people before we made these redirected URLs. It’s voluntary and fun. We 100% will not just randomly assign urls and advertise them. The goal is to make a simple (permissionless) way to obfuscate the usual aaaaa-aaaaa-cai etc of canisters.