Glossary

Active reservation

A paid reservation that has won its name's current availability round and is in review, approved, or minting. An unpaid request is a candidate, not a name hold.

Availability round

A numbered claim cycle for one normalized name. Only one reservation-payment claim can succeed in a round. Rejection or expiry can open a new round without making an old payment reusable.

Authorization

An EIP-712 signature produced by an approved backend signer. It permits one bounded action with specific fields and a deadline.

Commitment

A salted on-chain hash of approved mint parameters. It must mature before reveal and expires if it is not used within the contract's permitted window.

Superseded

A reservation candidate that lost to the first confirmed payment for the same name and availability round.

Effective length

The number of lowercase letters and digits in a normalized name. Dots and hyphens do not count toward pricing length.

Grace period

The 30 days after expiration during which the current owner can renew but cannot transfer the name.

Name ID

The bytes32 Keccak-256 hash of the normalized name's UTF-8 bytes.

Normalized name

The canonical string accepted by the naming policy and used to calculate identity.

Ownership generation

A counter that changes on transfer or reclaim and isolates resolver records between owners.

Protocol fee

ETH paid to a Hyndle contract on Base for reservation, registration, or renewal. It does not include Base network gas.

Reclaim

The approved registration of a name after its prior ownership and grace period have ended.

Resolver

A contract that maps a name and its current ownership generation to address or text records.

Token ID

The unsigned integer representation of nameId, used as the deterministic ERC-721 identifier.