Registering a Name
Everything happens on one page: stargaze.zone/names.
Before you start
You need:
A Keplr wallet connected to Stargaze. See Creating a Wallet and Connecting to Stargaze.
ATOM on the Cosmos Hub for the registration price, plus a fraction of a cent for gas. See Getting ATOM.
What a name costs
Names are priced by length, per year, in ATOM. Shorter names are rarer, so they cost more.
3 characters
100 ATOM
4 characters
10 ATOM
5 or more characters
1 ATOM
The term you choose is anywhere from 1 to 10 years, and pricing is linear — a 5-year registration of a 6-character name costs 5 ATOM. There is no bulk discount for registering longer, but there is no penalty either, and it means you can't forget to renew for a decade.
Step by step
1. Search for your name
Go to stargaze.zone/names and type the name you want into the search box. You don't need to connect a wallet to search.
As you type, Stargaze checks the name against the chain and shows one of:
A green tick and a price → available, you can register it
Not available → someone already owns it (see Already taken? below)
A red validation message → the name breaks one of the format rules
2. Check the format rules
A name must be:
3 to 62 characters
Made only of lowercase letters, digits, and hyphens
Not starting or ending with a hyphen, and without hyphens in the 3rd and 4th position together
Typing an uppercase letter, a space, or a dot will show an error rather than silently correcting it — there is no .stars suffix on the Cosmos Hub.
3. Connect your wallet
If you aren't connected, the button reads Connect Wallet. Connect, and it becomes Register.
4. Choose your term
Click Register to open the registration panel. Set Years with the stepper — anywhere from 1 to 10.
The summary updates live and shows:
Name — what you're registering
Registration — the number of years
Total — the full price in ATOM
5. Decide whether to point the name at your wallet
Below the summary there's a checkbox: Associate with your wallet address.
Tick it if you want this name to become your identity right away — your address will resolve to it, and Stargaze will start showing @yourname instead of cosmos1… everywhere.
Leave it unticked if you're registering a name to hold, gift, or resell. You can associate it later at any time from Managing Your Name.
If your wallet already resolves to a different name, a note tells you so. Ticking the box repoints your address to the new name — one address can point at only one name at a time. The old name stays yours; it just stops being your display name.
6. Register and sign
Click Register and approve the transaction in Keplr. When it confirms you'll see a Registration Successful screen with your new name, and a share button if you want to post it.
The name is now an NFT in your wallet.
7. Set up your profile
Open your profile, go to the Names tab, and click Edit on your new name to add a profile picture, a banner, and your links. See Managing Your Name.
Presale (whitelist) registration
Before public registration opened, Stargaze ran a three-stage presale for whitelisted wallets. If a stage is live, the Names page shows it as a Presale panel with a tab per stage, a live countdown, and an Eligible / Not Eligible badge once your wallet is connected.
During a presale stage:
5+ character names are free for the first year
3–4 character names are half price for the first year
Each stage has its own per-wallet allowance — the panel shows how many you have left
Registration is limited to whitelisted wallets while a stage is live; everyone else waits for public registration
Public registration opened on 11 August 2026, 19:00 UTC. From then on, anyone can register any available name at the normal price.
Recently expired names carry a premium
If a name lapsed recently, it enters a 21-day premium window before it becomes ordinary again. It's registerable, but the price is the normal price plus a surcharge that starts at 100 ATOM and falls steadily to zero across those 21 days.
When that applies, the page tells you: "This name recently expired and carries a temporary premium that decreases over time." Wait, and it gets cheaper. See Renewing a Name for the full lifecycle.
Already taken?
If the name you want is owned, you have four options:
Buy it. Check whether it's listed on the Names collection — see Buying & Selling Names.
Make an offer. Even an unlisted name can receive an offer on its page; the owner can accept it.
Try a variation. Hyphens and digits are valid characters.
Wait for it to lapse. Names expire. A name that isn't renewed becomes registerable again after its grace and premium windows — roughly 111 days after its expiry date.
Next steps
Managing Your Name — point it somewhere, set your picture and links
Renewing a Name — don't lose it
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