alice.yourbrand instead of GDHNO4WK…5UBU — with ownership guarantees no one can break, not even Soran.
The problem
Money on Stellar moves to 56-character addresses. One wrong character and the funds are gone — no undo, no support line. So every wallet builds its own contact book, every exchange prints memo warnings, and every business explains to its users why paying someone looks like defusing a bomb.What Soran is
Soran is namespace infrastructure — think payments-infrastructure economics, not a consumer domain shop:1
A business claims a namespace, once
yourbrand is won through a public, timelocked claim window — evidence-backed, objection-guarded — and lands in the business’s own wallet. It is an on-chain asset, not a subscription.2
It issues names to its users
alice.yourbrand, bob.yourbrand — one call per name, or thousands from a CSV. Names are free from Soran, forever: only Stellar’s own network fees apply — about $0.05 per user per year, paid to the network.3
Every wallet resolves them — trustlessly
Any wallet or app resolves
alice.yourbrand to a Stellar address straight from the chain with the SDK. Soran’s servers are not in the trust path. Reverse lookup shows verified names instead of addresses in history — unspoofable by construction.What makes it different: the guarantee is the product
The Soran Registry is immutable — deployed once, no admin key, no upgrade path. That is not a limitation; it is the entire point. It makes one sentence true that almost no naming system can say:Every name declares what can happen to it, the contract enforces the declaration, and anyone can verify it.
A wallet can render that guarantee as a glyph next to every name. A user about to send money can read the trust level at a glance. That legibility — provable promises, not terms-of-service promises — is what a brand can safely build on.
Sovereignty: the part that keeps everyone honest
Your namespace lives in your wallet. The contracts are permissionless: you can claim, issue, resolve, and transfer with nothing but your own keys and any RPC node — no Soran account required, ever. Everything Soran operates — the console, hosted resolution, webhooks, the cross-tenant directory, the escrow marketplace — is a convenience layer around an asset you already own. Useful enough to pay for, never able to hold your names hostage. If Soran vanished tomorrow, every name would keep resolving. That is by design: the permissionless escape hatch is the ceiling on what Soran can ever charge, and the reason “trust us” never has to appear in this documentation.Proven, not promised
- Live on public testnet — every flow in these docs runs against real deployed contracts (status)
- Measured economics — issuing a name costs ~0.081 XLM once; keeping it live costs ~0.16 XLM/year in Stellar storage rent — about $0.05 per user per year, paid to the network, not to Soran
- Names free forever — Soran monetizes optional hosted services and marketplace settlement, never your user growth
Start here
Wallets & apps
Send-to-name and verified reverse lookup in an afternoon with
@sorandomains/lookup.Businesses
Claim
yourbrand, choose your guarantee, issue names from the console — or from code with @sorandomains/owner.Backends
The public HTTP read surface — with the SDK verifying every hint on chain.
Ownership guarantees, in depth
Permanent, reclaimable, timed — and how permanence is proven on chain.
The trust model
Exactly what is trustless, what is hosted, and what happens if Soran disappears.