Create Handshake websites

Walkthroughs for building websites on Handshake names

One of the most straightforward use cases of Handshake names is to set up a website on them. You can also use Handshake names in these other ways.

Level 1 - No code

HNSHosting

HNSHosting offers WordPress hosting on Handshake names deployed in minutes with HTTPS support. Registering for free might be limited to users on their discord server. https://hnshosting.au

This site was created soley by Namer Nathan.Woodburn/.

Excerpt

Excerpt is a simple blog hosting platform that allows you to deploy a blog to your Handshake name in minutes. Find out more at https://excerpt/.

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HNS Links is a no-code way to deploy a links page to your Handshake name. It is free and supports features such as HIP05 wallet addresses, NIP05 Nostr usernames, and more.

This site was created soley by Namer Nathan.Woodburn/.

Vercel

Vercel offers many templates that you can use to build your website, hosted on Vercel.

Emojis and non-English names on Vercel

This tutorial was created soley by Namer skyinclude/.

Wordpress and Kinsta

This tutorial was created soley by Namer skyinclude/.

Level 2 - HTML

IPFS

If you have a website on IPFS, here's how to link it to your Handshake name.

Any HTML file on Github Pages

Host any HTML file on your Handshake name through Github Pages. The template used in the video can be accessed at templates.nb/.

This tutorial was made possible by Namer outofthisworld/.

Heroku

This tutorial was created soley by Namer rithvik/.

Wordpress and AWS

Skyinclude.com Mike made a quick video on how to build a Handshake site using Wordpress.org, WP2Static.com, and Amazon AWS.amazon.com with Namebase.io as the TLD registrar.

This tutorial was created soley by Namer skyinclude/.

Gatsby and Github Pages

In this tutorial @kiba_gateaux does a quick run through of how to deploy a site to github pages and access it with a Handshake domain name. In just 10 minutes you can have a website at your own personal TLD!

This tutorial was created solely by Namer kiba_gateaux/.

Fleek

Skynet and Arweave

Level 3 - Custom namserver

CoreDNS

Level 4 - HTTPS

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