Update: January 27th, 2020. It looks like we’re going to proceed forward with option 1B described below. Please see this comment for details.
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The FIO Protocol only exists as the sum of the community who believe in and support its vision to make crypto products easier so everyone can use them. During the early stages of the project, prior to the mainnet launch, many supporters of FIO participated in a pre-sale auction of domains create by Dapix. Upon mainnet launch on 3/24/2020, the first year clock started for when these domains would need to be renewed, costing around $40 USD in FIO token fees (as of this writing it’s 555.033612617 FIO for per renew_fio_domain call). According to the data on the knowledge base, there were 1976 domains registered as part of mainnet launch, if you exclude everything pre-reserved by the foundation on the community treasury multisig account: FIO7WUm6fWGeqHeP9DPriPemdtY1eWZRG9VAhDEWuEX46whAQYLA6
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