Unstoppable Domains

The company was founded in 2018 as a software company providing domain names on the blockchain. Gould said the team had been developing the technology since 2017; Bradley Kam was a co-founder and, in 2019, head of business development.⁠[1][1][2][2]

The pre-seed investor Boost VC invested in the company in 2018, and its website portfolio lists the company in San Francisco with the one-line description “Decentralized Domain Names.” In its tenth-anniversary announcement in September 2022, Boost VC named Unstoppable Domains, together with 21shares and Nifty GatewayNifty GatewayNifty Gateway was an American non-fungible token (NFT) digital art platform acquired by the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini in November 2019. Known for curated, time-limited drops and for allowing purchases in U.S. dollars and by credit card, the platform recorded more than $300 million in sales during the 2021 NFT boom and closed in 2026.Open the full entry, as companies that had grown from the pre-seed stage to $1 billion valuations in the previous 12 months, and quoted Gould’s endorsement of Boost VC.⁠[3][3][4][4]

The company announced that it had raised $4 million in a round then called a Series A, led by Draper Associates with participation from previous investor Boost VC, bringing its total funding to $4.7 million. The company also received grants from the Ethereum Foundation and the Zilliqa Foundation to develop its technology.⁠[5][5][2]

At this stage, the company began accepting pre-orders for domain names with the .zil extension on the Zilliqa blockchain. The domains were stored in cryptocurrency wallets and controlled by users holding the private keys, and website content could be stored on decentralized networks such as IPFS; the company described its mission as “global free speech” and said it intended to apply for .crypto when ICANN opened applications for new top-level domains. Such domains are not in ICANN’s root zone and cannot be resolved directly in most users’ ordinary network environments.⁠[2][2][2][2][2][5][5]

The company began commercially using the .WALLET extension on Ethereum in June 2021 and, in later litigation, claimed to have generated more than $5 million in revenue from .WALLET domain sales.⁠[1][1]

Scott Florcsk and his company Wallet, Inc. were active on another blockchain, Handshake. Florcsk claimed to own the .WALLET extension on Handshake, and the registrar Gateway Registry began selling it publicly on July 4, 2022. On July 19, 2022, Unstoppable Domains sued Gateway Registry and its chief executive officer James Stevens in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, alleging common-law trademark infringement, unfair competition, and other claims, and on July 29 it moved for a temporary restraining order; the defendants did not appear at the August 16 hearing, and at the plaintiff’s request the clerk entered a default.⁠[1][1][1][1][1][1][1][1][1]

On September 21, 2022, Florcsk and the company sued each other. On June 23, 2023, the court allowed Florcsk to intervene as a defendant in the original case; in July of that year, the company dismissed its suit against Gateway Registry with prejudice, on the grounds that Gateway had not sold .wallet domains for nearly a year. On February 8, 2024, Judge Colm F. Connolly dismissed the unfair competition and antitrust claims in Florcsk’s suit under the Noerr-Pennington doctrine, while the claim for a declaratory judgment of non-infringement proceeded.⁠[1][1][1][6][6][7][7][7]

The company announced a $65 million Series A round that valued it at $1 billion, led by Pantera Capital with participation from Mayfield, Polygon, CoinGecko, and others, and with continued participation from Draper Associates and Boost VC. Gould said that the $6.9 million raised across earlier rounds (including the round billed as a Series A in 2019) would henceforth all be counted as seed funding.⁠[8][8][8][8][8]

As of the announcement, the company had registered more than 2.5 million NFT domains, with extensions including .crypto, .nft, .dao, and .x, starting at $5; it said it had generated more than $80 million in sales since launching in 2019. The domains are minted as NFTs and held by users in their own wallets, with no renewal fees; more than 300 partners supported its domains, and in January 2022 it launched “Login with Unstoppable” single sign-on.⁠[9][9][8][9][8][8][8][8]

The company’s website domain, unstoppabledomains.com, was hijacked, and the company warned users on X not to open emails from the domain or use the website until further notice. Gould suspected that the company’s registrar account at Squarespace had been compromised.⁠[10][10][10]

The company became an ICANN-accredited registrar, planning to sell domains in the vast majority of generic top-level domains and to prepare, with several blockchain companies, applications for new generic top-level domains in ICANN’s 2026 round. In October of that year, the company had registered more than 4 million names on its blockchain naming systems.⁠[11][11][11][12]

The company said that 12 partners offering blockchain extensions (including .boomer, .bald, and .pendle) no longer intended to apply for the corresponding generic top-level domains in the next round, and offered refunds to registrants in those extensions.⁠[13][13][13]

In a post on March 16, 2026, Gould said that blockchain domains had been part of the 2021 crypto boom and had failed to reach mainstream use, and that traditional DNS domains already accounted for more than 90% of the company’s business. In February 2026, the company was approved to act as a registry service provider in the new generic top-level domain program, and as of April 7, 2026, its ten shell registrar companies, UnstoppableUS1 through UnstoppableUS10 LLC, had received ICANN accreditation.⁠[14][14][14][14][15]

The company launched Unstoppable.ai, a consumer artificial intelligence product brand, along with a desktop app that can handle tasks in users’ files, browsers, and apps on their behalf and lets users connect their own Claude Code or ChatGPT/Codex subscriptions; the company said its domains business would continue, with UnstoppableDomains.com remaining responsible for domain registration and trading.⁠[16][16][16][16][16]

During ICANN’s 2026 application window for new generic top-level domains, the company submitted five applications as a service provider for partners, for .AGI, .ROBOT, .GRAM, .HUB, and .XMR, with .GRAM being Telegram’s application; it did not apply for nine of its own extensions: .CRYPTO, .WALLET, .POLYGON, .NFT, .BITCOIN, .DAO, .UNSTOPPABLE, .ZIL, and .BLOCKCHAIN. The company explained that ICANN’s planned integration rules would require every name in an integrated namespace to be registered and paid for in the DNS and registrants to disclose their data, which would affect its more than 4 million issued Web3 domains.⁠[17][17][17][17][17][17]

The company offered refunds to users who had bought domains in the relevant extensions after it announced its intent to apply: from June 5, 2024, for .BLOCKCHAIN and from March 5, 2025, for the other eight extensions, with refund requests accepted from August 25 to September 25, 2026. The application fee was $227,000 per extension, or more than $2 million for all nine; Gould said the costs of compliance, applications, and possible auctions exceeded expected sales revenue and that the Web3 domain market was “niche.” Some holders felt the refunds did not cover all affected domains.⁠[17][17][17][18][18][18][18][19]

As of October 2026, the company’s website presents it as an ICANN-accredited registrar and domain marketplace, saying it has added more than 900,000 domains under management since earning accreditation in 2024 and supports more than 150 extensions; Matthew Gould is founder and chief executive officer, and Michael Campagnolo is president.⁠[20][20][20][20][20]

Unstoppable Domains: Official website: https://unstoppabledomains.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[21]

X: Public account: https://x.com/unstoppableweb (opens in a new window)⁠[21]

LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unstoppable-domains (opens in a new window)⁠[21]

YouTube: Public channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/UnstoppableDomains (opens in a new window)⁠[21]