A browser where you actually own things.
Your normal web works exactly as it does now: search, news, email, shopping, all of it, nothing to switch and nothing to give up. The FreeholdIP Browser just adds a second web alongside it: one where your address, your page, your mailbox and your payments are property you bought instead of services you rent. Here is what that means in practice, and you can see some of it live from this very page.
Three things, and the rest explains itself
- A name like yourname.alg works just like a .comYou type it into the browser's address bar and a page loads. The difference is where the name lives. A .com is an entry in a registrar's database that you rent by the year; stop paying, or upset them, and it stops being yours. A .alg is a record on a public blockchain, a shared list of who owns what that anyone can read and nobody can quietly edit, and you buy it once.
- A "key" is just a long secret number the browser creates and looks after for youWhoever holds a name's key controls the name. That is precisely why no company can take it back, and also why the key is the one thing worth guarding. You never memorize it or type it: it sits in an encrypted vault on your own machine, and 24 recovery words rebuild it if that computer dies. The browser even lets you run a drill on those words and watch it prove the name is yours. Most people never find out whether their backup works until the day it has to.
- You pay with an ordinary cardThere is no cryptocurrency to buy, no wallet to install, no coins to hold. You pick a name, pay at a normal checkout, and the name is put on the blockchain for you.
Give your name a profile
Owning a name is the start. Attach a profile to it and yourname.alg becomes the one address for everything about you: tell someone your name, and they can find all of it.
Your own page
Your photo, your name, what you do and a few words about yourself, signed with your key so everyone knows it came from you.
Your website and accounts
Point to your website and your social media accounts from one place. A link earns a ✓ when the page it points to points back to your name.
Your website, at your name
Or point the name straight at your website, so typing yourname.alg into the FreeholdIP Browser opens your site itself.
A way to pay you
Add your own card checkout link, signed with your key, so anyone paying you knows it is really yours.
Credentials that prove it
A license or certificate issued to your name can show on your profile, where anyone can check it for themselves.
Seen in any browser
Only the FreeholdIP Browser opens yourname.alg directly. Everyone else sees your profile through its public link on freeholdip.com, in whatever browser they use.
Everywhere else, and here
A name that is yours
Everywhere else: your web address is a rental. Stop paying the yearly fee, or displease the registrar, and it's gone.
With FreeholdIP: the name is yours the way your car is yours: bought once, held by your own key, with no company standing between you and it. No renewal, no landlord. The browser watches the public record and raises an alarm if your name's ownership ever changes.
One name is a whole presence
Everywhere else: a website needs a host, an inbox needs a provider, payments need PayPal: four companies, four logins.
With FreeholdIP: your name is the website, the mailbox, the way to pay you and the phone number, all at once. Tell someone yourname.alg and you have told them everything.
Messages only the right name can open
Everywhere else: messages live on a company's server, tied to your phone number, readable by whoever runs it.
With FreeholdIP: you message a name, and the message is sealed to that name's key, so only its owner can open it. There is no account and no phone number because the name is the identity, and it is a public one you own: your key signs every message, so whoever receives it can prove it came from you.
Calls without a phone company
Everywhere else: voice and video mean a Zoom link, a Google account, a phone plan, and someone in the middle.
With FreeholdIP: call a name. Voice and video go straight between the two of you, end to end, proven by the same keys that prove who owns the name. No sign-up, and a call only rings between two people who have already accepted each other as contacts.
Get paid by name, honestly labeled
Everywhere else: taking money online means onboarding with a processor and handing out account numbers.
With FreeholdIP: type pay yourname.alg in the browser and it shows the owner's own checkout link (PayPal, Stripe, Square, Venmo, Cash App), signed by their own key, so a buyer knows the link is really the merchant's and no one else can substitute one. Card details go to the processor, never to us.
Proof, not promises
Everywhere else: the padlock only proves you're connected to a server. It says nothing about whether the content is genuine.
With FreeholdIP: the browser verifies the content itself: pages arrive with cryptographic proof they are exactly what the owner published. Profile links earn a ✓ only when the linked page provably points back, checked by your browser, not by us.
Storage you buy once, or run free
Everywhere else: hosting is rent. Stop paying, your site disappears.
With FreeholdIP: pin your site on your own computer for free, or pay once and we keep it online: a full 20 years prepaid at today's rates, a runway that lengthens every year storage gets cheaper. Every paid file's fingerprint is published openly so anyone (including you) can re-pin it elsewhere. Convenience, never captivity.
A real website in minutes
Everywhere else: you need a hosting plan, a builder subscription, or a developer.
With FreeholdIP: fill in your profile and you have a page. Use the built-in site builder for something fancier, or bring your existing site over with one click. Want a designed one? The builder hands you a ready-made prompt to paste into any AI you already use (ChatGPT, Claude…) and you paste the result back. No AI runs inside the browser, by design.
Real names, owned today
These live on Algorand and resolve natively in the FreeholdIP Browser, with no extension and no gateway. The links below open their records in whatever browser you are reading this in.
That last one is worth a moment: it is not ours, it is not on Algorand, and the page you land on is served by a public gateway we do not run. The browser resolves it natively all the same, because an owned name is owned property wherever it lives, not a feature of our service.
Plain files, nothing to hack
What you publish is a static site: plain pages, images and files, with no server programs and no database behind it. That is why there is nothing to hack, and why any computer that has the files can serve them.
Visitors on the FreeholdIP Browser reach your site at your name itself, with no server of ours in the loop. Everyone else reaches it in any ordinary browser through its public gateway link, which does route through our server, but ours is never the only possible door: every published site has a content address in its public record, and pasting it onto any public IPFS gateway, ipfs.io/ipfs/, serves the same files.ipfs.io/ipfs/<your content address>lt;your content addressipfs.io/ipfs/<your content address>gt;
See a demo site served exactly that way by ipfs.io, a gateway we don't run
Any other browser, and this one
| Any other browser | FreeholdIP Browser | |
|---|---|---|
| Your web address | rented, every year | bought once, owned for good |
| Your website | monthly hosting | one payment, two decades prepaid, or free on your machine |
| Private messages | an account on their server | a key in your pocket |
| Video calls | Zoom account, Google account | name to name, built in |
| Getting paid | a processor account | your name opens an owner-signed card link (PayPal, Stripe, Square, Venmo…) |
| What's proven | the connection (padlock) | the content itself |
| Who holds the name | registrar · host · platform | you, with your own key |
What it does, and where it has limits
The ordinary web works completely normally in the FreeholdIP Browser: search, news, shopping, all of it. The owned web is the bonus, and it plays by physics, not promises: a site pinned free on your own computer is online while that computer is (one checkbox keeps it online around the clock, or one payment puts it on our nodes). And "our nodes" isn't one machine in a closet; it's a cluster, each node in constant conversation with hundreds of others around the world, so your content has somewhere to come from even when any single machine goes dark. The browser tells you which is which, every time.
One absence is deliberate: the browser has no password manager and will never offer to save a login. It stores no secrets except the ones it exists to protect: the keys to your names, credentials and recovery, and it injects nothing into the pages you visit, which is part of why it's safe. For everyday website passwords, run a dedicated manager beside it (Bitwarden is free and open-source): strong, unique, encrypted passwords everywhere, and nothing about them ever touches us.
"Why should I trust a browser with my keys?"
The right question, and the answer isn't "because we promise." It's that we built ourselves out of the critical path, and you can check every part of that claim yourself.
- Your keys never leave your computer. They're made there and stay there. We could not hand over your name if we were asked to. We don't have it.
- Ownership is proven against the public record, not our word. Anyone can look up who owns a name without asking us, using tools we don't run. The browser's recovery drill rebuilds your name from your own backup with FreeholdIP treated as switched off.
- Every page is checked on your own machine against the fingerprint its owner published, so even a server we control can't hand you a doctored page without your browser noticing.
- Every file we're paid to keep online has its fingerprint published openly, so you (or anyone) can put a copy somewhere else at any time. Storage here is a convenience you can walk away from, never a hostage.
- The browser is built to outlive us. That's a design requirement, not a slogan: names live on public blockchains and pages live on a public network, so a name and a site that someone keeps online would still resolve if this company were gone. Where that has limits, we say so plainly; see "The honest part" above.
Own your name for $5, paid once
An introductory price of just $5, paid once, never again. The browser itself is free and open to everyone: Windows, Mac and Linux builds, with SHA-256 checksums to verify, on the download page. Questions? support@freeholdip.com.