The .sol Upgrade: What Holders Need to Know

If you hold a .sol domain before the snapshot, you’ll end up with two: yourname.sns and yourname.sol.

The domain you have today stays in your wallet, with its records, subdomains and settings intact, and will display as .sns. Separately, a new .sol domain with the same name arrives at no charge from us.

For most holders, there is nothing to do. We will take a snapshot shortly after August 17. Whatever wallet holds your domain at that moment is where your new .sol domain goes.

If you hold your own domain in your own wallet, that is all you need to know. There is no claim process. No wallet connection, no signature, no fee.

If an exchange or custodian holds it, move it to a wallet you control before the snapshot.

If your domain is listed for sale on sns.id or Magic Eden, leave it as it is. The new domain goes to the wallet that listed it, not to the marketplace escrow.

There is no claim process. No wallet connection, no signature, no fee. So anyone asking you to claim, verify, connect or pay is trying to steal from you. We will never ask for your seed phrase, and we will never message you first. The only place to check your status is migration.sns.id. Reach it from our official channels rather than from a link someone sends you.

What is this upgrade for

Today your name works inside crypto: wallets, apps, on-chain payments. Type it into a browser and nothing happens.

The new .sol is built so that could change. Earlier this month we endorsed the Solana Foundation’s application to ICANN for .sol as a top-level domain, which would let .sol work as an ordinary web address alongside everything it does now. That runs on ICANN's timetable, takes years rather than months, and the outcome is not ours to promise. We think it's worth trying for what .sol could become.

ICANN only decides whether .sol works in a browser. Sending and receiving by name instead of a wallet address keeps working on .sns throughout, and on your new .sol once it activates.

Timeline

• 17 August. Registrations of .sol domains pause, with the snapshot taken shortly after. Only .sol domains registered before the pause are included.

• Early to mid-September. Registrations reopen under .sns, and existing domains begin appearing as .sns wherever apps have updated. Domains registered from this point do not qualify for the new .sol.

• Late September to early October. New .sol domains are delivered automatically to eligible wallets. They will not resolve, and will not support records, primary-domain settings or subdomains, at the time they arrive. Those capabilities come in the final phase.

• Mid to late October. .sol resolution pauses in our official SDKs and rolls out to wallets and apps as they update. Apps that have not updated may keep resolving .sol for a period, so the same name can behave differently depending on where you look. Where the amount matters, confirm the destination address with the person you are paying rather than relying on the name.

• Q4 2026 into Q1 2027. The new SRS-based .sol domains begin activating. Support for resolution, transactions, and display will roll out progressively across wallets, apps, and other services as partners add support.

*All dates are current targets and may change.

Where to go deeper

The full FAQ covers this in detail: https://www.sns.id/blog/migration-faq

Developers should start at dev.sns.id.

For help, use the #migration channel in our official Discord at discord.sns.id or email us directly at migration@sns.id. We will keep posting updates through official SNS channels as each phase approaches.