Subdomains for people still finding their footing
Built and maintained by Sushil Kumar
Money should never block shipping.
Great software deserves a place to live.
Talented fledgling developers can build the thing and still fall behind at the checkout page. Namestead lets them claim a free subdomain under domains we own—so cost never decides who gets to ship.
yourname
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portfilio.live
They claim this bit ↑
Namestead keeps this stable ↑
01 / Active domains
Featured now →
Claim a room. We’ll keep the building standing.
2 live · 16 names claimed
Every domain here is an apex Namestead maintains; developers claim a free subdomain beneath it, never the apex itself. A campaign card is a domain the community is raising money to register.
Campaign
A free name.hire-me.page for anyone looking for work: one clean link for your portfolio, your résumé and how to reach you. We are raising the three-year registration in public, and every rupee shows on the ledger.
Once it’s bought, you claim
yourname.hire-me.page
Contributing doesn’t reserve a name: claims open to everyone at once.
Goal
₹3,300
Target date
2026-12-31
Three-year registration
0% raised
Raised so far
₹0
No supporters yet
Chip in to bring it online
Campaign
acme.is-hiring.dev: one free link where a small team or a new startup lists its open roles and how to apply. We are raising the three-year registration in public, and every rupee shows on the ledger.
Once it’s bought, you claim
yourname.is-hiring.dev
Contributing doesn’t reserve a name: claims open to everyone at once.
Goal
₹3,500
Target date
2026-12-31
Three-year registration
0% raised
Raised so far
₹0
No supporters yet
Chip in to bring it online
Live
A free home for your portfolio
You claim the subdomain
yourname.portfilio.live
Apex stays in Namestead’s custody
Annual upkeep
₹2,529.36 / yr
Names claimed
11
Renewal reserve · due 2027-10-04
0% funded
Raised this upkeep year
₹0
No supporters yet
Chip in to keep it online
A free name for whatever you're building
You claim the subdomain
yourname.digitalplayground.quest
Apex stays in Namestead’s custody
Annual upkeep
₹1,368.71 / yr
Names claimed
5
Renewal reserve · due 2027-07-07
0% funded
Raised this upkeep year
₹0
No supporters yet
Chip in to keep it online
One small distinction
Free subdomain. Shared infrastructure. Stable custody.
Your work gets a durable URL. Namestead handles DNS, renewals, abuse response, and continuity.
01
Pick a catalog domain
Choose the context that fits your work.
02
Claim your name
Example: yourname.portfilio.live
03
Point and publish
Connect your project. Keep shipping.
02 / Transparency
No fuzzy bucket.
Every rupee in and out, in public.
Where do contributions go?
Contributions help fund the operation and growth of Namestead: the real costs of keeping it running.
Domain registrations and renewals
Hosting, servers and databases
Software, APIs and email
Development, maintenance and security
Also abuse handling, community operations, and legal, accounting and administrative costs. As Namestead grows, funds may also support contributors, contractors, maintainers and other people who help build and run it.
No founder pay, today.
Namestead is currently maintained by Sushil Kumar without founder compensation. As the project grows, funds may be used to pay reasonably for work performed on it.
₹0
today
Current monthly plan
₹3,156 / mo
Servers, hosting & backups
₹2,728 / mo
Domains
₹428 / mo
Contributed so far
₹0
0 contributions
Spent so far
₹4,525.50
Servers, hosting & backups · Domains
What the public ledger shows
Community contributions
Domain costs
Infrastructure
Software & APIs
Development
Contractors
Operations
Other costs
Remaining funds
We publish how community support is used, so anyone can see what running Namestead costs. No personal, bank or payment details are ever published.
Open public ledger03 / 2026 goal
Show the working.
An open book, not a magic number.
What the rest of 2026 costs: the running plan for the months left, plus this year’s new-domain campaigns. Both sides come straight from the ledger; nothing else is tucked inside.
The calculation
01
A
3 months left × ₹3,156 plan
₹9,468
Keeps the live domains, servers, email and maintenance running to the end of the year, at the published monthly plan.
B
2 new domains · campaign goals
₹6,800
Three-year registrations for the domains the community is raising money for this year.
Year-end target
₹16,268
Covered so far
02
₹0
Of ₹16,268 · 0%
A · Running
₹0
Held in the general and upkeep funds today.
B · New domains
₹0
Raised by this year’s campaigns.
04 / Domain leaderboard
Vote first.
The community asks. The ledger answers.
Demand becomes visible before money moves. The admin checks fit, price and abuse risk against a published checklist, then one campaign raises the registration in public.
01
Community requests
Anyone nominates a useful domain.
02
Public leaderboard
Votes make demand visible.
03
Admin review
Fit, price, and abuse risk checked.
04
Official campaign
One campaign raises the three-year registration.
Requested domains
Sorted by community votes
12 open
2
Vote
For anyone looking for work: name.hire-me.page is a portfolio link that says what you want at a glance.
Campaign live
Missing the right domain? Put it on the board.
Community campaign
Admin approved ✓
A free name.hire-me.page for anyone looking for work: one clean link for your portfolio, your résumé and how to reach you. We are raising the three-year registration in public, and every rupee shows on the ledger.
Three-year registration
Target 2026-12-31
Goal ₹3,300
The registration price with a currency buffer and payment fees, worked out in public.
₹0 raised · 0%
No supporters yet
Chip in
Any amount goes to this campaign. If it closes without the domain, the published rules decide what happens to the money, and the ledger shows it.
05 / About & support
Plainly stated.
Community-funded infrastructure for developers.
What is Namestead?
Namestead is an independently operated community project focused on making useful digital infrastructure more accessible to developers.
It provides developers with resources such as domains, subdomains and supporting infrastructure, so they can publish and build their projects without handling every infrastructure cost themselves.
Namestead is currently operated and maintained independently by Sushil Kumar.
Support Namestead
Namestead is currently funded by the community. Contributions help cover the real costs of running the project: domains, hosting, cloud infrastructure, software, APIs, development, maintenance, security and other operational expenses.
The founder does not take compensation from the project today. As Namestead grows, funds may also support contributors, contractors, employees, maintainers and other people who help build and operate it.
Your support helps keep Namestead available to developers.
See where it goesNamestead is currently an independently operated project owned and maintained by Sushil Kumar. It is not currently a registered NGO, charitable trust, society, Section 8 company, or other registered nonprofit organization.
Contributions to Namestead are not represented as tax-deductible charitable donations, and do not provide ownership, equity or control over Namestead.
The short version
Live from the ledger
02
Live catalog domains · 16 names claimed
₹3,156
Current monthly running plan
0%
₹0 / ₹16,268
Toward the 2026 goal