.GDBx — short names for long URLs

Claim a name

PoW difficulty scales with length (≤4 chars: diff 4, ≤8: diff 3, else 2). Name is lower-case, 1–40 chars.

Lookup

Transfer (gift)

Current owner signs a gift record to a new owner's pubkey. Stored at tld/gdbx/<name>/gift.

Single network — easy for developers

No mainnet/testnet/local split. One GDBx network, one namespace:

How it works

1. Mine PoW over name:pub:target:ts:nonce (diff 4/3/2 by length)
2. Sign claim {name,target,ownerPub,ts} with GDBx envelope
3. Store at tld/gdbx/<name> via POST /sync (LWW)
4. Resolve GET /name/:name re-verifies PoW + sig server-side
5. Short link /n/:name 302-redirects if target is http(s)

CLI

gdbx identity create
gdbx name claim myapp https://myapp.dev
# → ✓ claimed myapp.gdbx → https://myapp.dev
# → https://gdbx.pages.dev/n/myapp
gdbx name lookup myapp