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Open the name’s own page
Go to /domain/ followed by the name. Searching a name opens the wallet it points to instead, when it has one.
Open foundation.ton - 2
Read the owner
A .ton name is an NFT in the TON DNS collection. Owner is the account that holds it, and only the owner can renew it.
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Read what it resolves to
Resolved Records shows Wallet (where payments to the name go), Site (ADNL), Storage (Bag ID) and Next Resolver. A name may set none of them.
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Read the renewal deadline
Registration runs 366 days from the owner’s last action that carried value, not only from a renewal. So the Renewal deadline moves: it is a date to renew by, not a fixed expiry.
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Check for a live auction
Auction in progress shows the top bid and when it ends; a bid in its final hour pushes the end back. A name with no owner is not necessarily in auction: an ended one keeps its last state until someone settles it.
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Read its history
Activity lists what happened to the name on chain, each with its transaction.
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Read “No on-chain DNS record found” as it is
It does not mean the name is free. An expired name not yet released, a name in auction and a string under 4 characters, which cannot be registered, all answer the same.
See running auctions and renewals due - 8
Bid, buy or renew at ton.website
TonScan only reads names and connects no wallet. Bidding, buying, renewing and editing records are done at ton.website, signed by your wallet.
Bid on, buy or renew .ton names on ton.website - 9
Renew every name a wallet holds
ton.website/manage lists the .ton names a wallet holds and renews them together.
Manage a wallet’s names on ton.website
How to Check a .ton Domain on Chain
Who owns a .ton name, what it resolves to, when its registration runs out, whether an auction is live, and its history.
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