What is a Stargaze Name?

A Stargaze Name is a short, human-readable identity for your Cosmos Hub wallet.

Instead of this:

cosmos1h7vk2ycx8m4gq3n0dzp9awufe5s6tlr4jb2xdq7mve3n8ku0y9rs2pfw6c

people see this:

@stargazer

Same wallet. One is impossible to remember and easy to get wrong; the other is you.

What a name gives you

Registering a name gives you four things at once:

• An identity. Your name replaces your address everywhere on Stargaze — the navbar, your profile, activity feeds, notifications, search results, owner and buyer rows.

• A profile. Your name carries a profile picture, a banner, and links (X, Discord, Telegram, website, EVM address). Set them once and they follow you across the site.

• An address it points to. By default your own wallet — but a name can also point at a collection contract, which is how projects get a clean collection URL.

• An NFT. The name is a CW721 NFT in your wallet. You can hold it, transfer it, list it, or auction it like any other collectible.

The format

Stargaze Names on the Cosmos Hub are bare — there is no .stars, .cosmos, or any other suffix. The name is just the word. Stargaze displays it with an @ in front, the way a social handle is shown, but the @ is not part of the name.

Rule	Detail
Length	3 to 62 characters
Allowed characters	lowercase letters a–z, digits 0–9, and hyphens -
Not allowed	uppercase, spaces, dots, emoji, or any other symbol
Hyphens	cannot be the first or last character, and cannot sit in the 3rd and 4th position together

Names are not case-sensitive because uppercase simply isn't valid — Stargazer is rejected, stargazer is the name.

Names are leased, not owned permanently

This is the most important thing to understand before registering.

A name is registered for a term of 1 to 10 years, paid up front in ATOM. Before that term ends you renew it. If you never renew, the name eventually goes back to the public and someone else can take it.

This is deliberate. It keeps the namespace in circulation rather than allowing names to be held indefinitely by wallets that have been abandoned.

Selling or transferring a name does not reset the clock. The buyer inherits whatever time is left on the lease and has to renew it themselves.

See Renewing a Name for exactly how renewals, the grace period, and expiry work.

Where names show up on Stargaze

Where	What you see
Names in the top navbar	Register, Trade, and My Names
stargaze.zone/names	Search for a name and register it
stargaze.zone/m/names	The Names collection on the marketplace — browse, buy, and sell names
/m/names/<name>	An individual name's page, like any other NFT
Profile → Names tab	Every name a wallet owns, its expiry date, and Edit / Renew buttons if it's yours
Your profile header	Your name as your display name, plus the profile picture and banner you set on it
Everywhere an address appears	Activity, notifications, search, offers, owner rows — the address is replaced by the name it resolves to
Collection URLs	A collection whose creator pointed a name at it gets a readable URL instead of a contract address

Coming from the Stargaze chain?

Names that existed on the original Stargaze chain were migrated to the Cosmos Hub for you — you don't need to re-register them. They arrived with a one-year lease starting from the August 2026 migration, so they will need renewing like any other name.

Check yours: open your profile, go to the Names tab, and look at the Expires column.

Migrated names kept their text records where possible, but it's worth opening Edit once to confirm your links and profile picture are the ones you want.

Next steps

• Registering a Name — check availability, pricing, and claim one

• Renewing a Name — keep it, step by step

• Managing Your Name — profile picture, banner, links, and where it points

• Buying & Selling Names — trade names on the marketplace