Silent Mode
Two internets. Twice over.
The web you use every day is owned. Companies decide which names exist, which pages load, and whose voice carries. Registrars record who bought what. Card networks and banks sit in the middle of every payment. The browser you are reading this in reports home, and so does most of what it loads. There are privacy-forward providers that will hold your identity on your behalf — but they still hold it, and a court order still reaches them. Sirius removes the surface instead: names you hold by key, pages nobody can pull, payment with no card and no bank, and a browser with nobody to report to. Anonymous by default, not by exception. Whether you want to use it or build on it, it starts the same way: something you install, and a name that is actually yours.
The web you browse
Where you read, post, and are read. Pick the one you want to live in.
The blue one
Stay where it is easy.
- Your account is a permission. It exists while the platform allows it, under terms they rewrite when they like.
- You are measured everywhere you go. The browser reports home, the pages report home, and the profile follows you between them. Attention is the business model, so being watched is not a bug — it is the system.
- What you publish stays up until it does not. Moderation is theirs, appeals go to them, and the reasons need not be given.
- The reach you built is not portable. Leave, and the audience stays behind.
The red one
Step outside it.
- No account, anywhere. No email, no sign-up, no password to reset. Nothing to suspend, because nothing was granted.
- A browser with nobody to report to. Theseus resolves names straight from the chain — no lookup service in the middle logging what you typed.
- A name that is yours by key, not by permission. Held on a public ledger; no registrar stands between you and it, and none of them learns your name to give you one.
- Pages nobody can pull. On your own server, spread across strangers who are paid to keep it, or inside a transaction the whole network stores.
- Nobody to petition, because nobody is in charge. That cuts both ways, and it is the honest trade.
The web you build on
If you ship things, the question repeats one layer down — and this time the gatekeepers have invoices, and a record of who paid them.
The blue one
Rent it, like everyone.
- Anonymous only by exception. The default path binds the name to your legal identity — WHOIS/RDAP holds the registrant data, ICANN requires it be accurate, and the card ties it all together. Privacy providers like Njalla take Monero and behave well — pair them with Tor or a VPN and the real-world privacy is genuinely good. Pay with a bank card, and none of it applies. Either way, the provider still holds what they were told and can be compelled to produce it.
- Renewal is the model, and it is a reasonable one. A yearly fee keeps the namespace alive — unused names return to the pool instead of being hoarded forever, and the registrar has a business that survives. That part is fine. Sirius makes renewals a per-TLD choice instead of a universal invoice: each TLD owner sets their own policy. What differs is who holds the record and can be leaned on to change it.
- Suspension is a supported feature. Registrars act on court orders, UDRP rulings and their own policy — by design, not by failure.
- Every layer keeps a veto, and a bank sits under all of them. Host, CDN, certificate authority, payment processor. Any one can decline.
- It is genuinely good infrastructure. Fast, cheap, supported, and someone answers the phone. That is the deal you are making.
The red one
Own the name outright.
Sirius.X — names, hosting and a site builder, paid in crypto
- Anonymous by default, not by exception. No account, no email, no card, no bank — because the stack does not support them. Nothing to compel out of a provider that never held it.
- Payment is peer to peer. You pay in crypto, direct to the seller, with no processor deciding whether you may and no bank keeping a record of the purchase. Add Tor or a VPN to cover the network layer, which nothing else can do for you — no stack removes your IP.
- The name is a certificate you hold. A CashToken on Bitcoin Cash — your key controls it, and there is no company in the middle to ask.
- Host it however you like. Your own server, the Sia storage network, or the whole page inside a single transaction — bitcoin.cash is HTML served straight from an on-chain record. Repoint whenever, for free.
- Records edits are free. DNS-style records (A, AAAA, MX, TXT…) live in a signed manifest next to the site — chain proves you own the name, signature proves you wrote the records. No transaction fee per change, no size cap, no operator trusted with your zone. TXT-verification churn (ACME, DKIM, DMARC) costs nothing.
- Build the site right there. A shape picker on Sirius.X — landing page, portfolio, business card, blog, whitepaper — hands you a visual editor and publishes to Sia + the on-chain record in one click. No FTP, no deploy script.
- Own a whole TLD. Mint one on-chain and earn 90 % of every name registered under it. Renewals are your call, per TLD.
- The whole stack is yours to run. Browser, resolver, indexer, registry — a node plus a small BNS-only indexer fits a one-core VPS. Any TLD works; the protocol has no allowlist.
Running on Bitcoin Cash chipnet — an alpha on a test network, free to try, and
honest about being early.
You are reading this on silentmode.st, the
ordinary-web face of the project. The same pages served the other way live at
silentmode.bch.