Own Your Identity: Endless Domains Chandigarh Tour

[01]The web, in three versions 🌐

How the session walked from the first website to owning your own corner of the internet.

1. Scene01

   Web 1 · Read

   info.cern.ch

   Just hyperlinks, navigating from one page to another. No images.

2. Scene02

   Web 2 · Rent

   Social accounts

   Facebook, Instagram and the rest: we can interact with anyone, anywhere. But we don't control any of it, we're renting. A YouTube strike can land any time, a Gmail ID can be blocked, and domains sit with a registrar like GoDaddy.

3. Scene03

   Web 3 · Own

   Decentralisation

   Here it's ours, personal, and no one can take it away. A crypto wallet nobody else can block, coins moving over a blockchain, and a domain with zero renewal fees: once owned, it's yours.

[02]Web3, in five cards 🔗

From my notes. Answer them in your head first, then flip.

0 / 5 answered · tap a card to flip it

• Q01 · HistoryWhat did the first website look like?Flip ↻Answerinfo.cern.ch: just hyperlinks, taking you from one page to the next. No images at all.
• Q02 · Web 2Do you own your online accounts?Flip ↻AnswerNot really, you're renting. A YouTube strike can land any time, and a Gmail ID can be blocked.
• Q03 · WalletsWhy aren't centralised exchanges considered good?Flip ↻AnswerOn an exchange like Binance, you don't hold the security keys. With a cold wallet, you do.
• Q04 · BuildingWhich languages came up for building on blockchains?Flip ↻AnswerSolidity and Rust.
• Q05 · DomainsWhy link a .og domain to your wallet?Flip ↻AnswerSo people can send to yourname.og instead of learning a long wallet address.

[03]What I learned

• 🌐

  The evolution of the web

  Web 1.0 to read, Web 2.0 to interact, and Web 3.0 to own.

• ⛓️

  Crypto and blockchain

  What a blockchain is, how coins move across one, and how a ledger differs from a wallet.

• 🪪

  A Web3 identity

  With Endless Domains: no renewal fees, 100% ownership of the domain, decentralised control of your identity, and one platform for all your domains.

• 🅿️

  Domains that earn

  A parked domain is owned but not used, and can still earn. An appraisal tool tells you what your domain is worth.

[04]Moments

• 🍕

  A free meal for everyone

  Stacks of Domino's boxes and bottles of Coke, for the whole room. Nobody saw that coming.

  Free lunch
• 🦊

  #IM.OG

  The certificate came with a sticker sheet: "Decentralize your vibe", "Your .OG space" and "I live on-chain".

  Swag ✓

[05]Behind the scenes

[06]The certificate

That's a wrap ✓

For actively participating in the Own Your Identity Chandigarh Tour held at Chitkara University, organised by Endless Domains. Signed by Jay Saadana, Developer Relations, and Vicky Hissaria, Director. 📜

“On Web 2 we build our lives on accounts we rent. Web 3 is the first time the internet has offered to hand over the keys, and it's worth understanding before deciding what to do with them.”