XRD Domains was a now-deprecated domain registration and management platform for .xrd names on the Radix network, and a major builder of tooling around the Radix Name Service (RNS).
It previously served as the primary user-facing gateway for discovering, acquiring, and administering .xrd domains.
In practice, XRD Domains acted as the "dashboard" experience for .xrd owners - abstracting the underlying on-ledger complexity and providing a more approachable interface for handling records / configuring how a domain resolved or behaved across Radix applications.
As a result of the Radix Name Service (RNS) community vote, the project adopted a wind-down path for XRD Domains.
The vote endorsed moving toward an immutable, fork based method of operation at community level, so a namespace could continue as a neutral, long-lived piece of infrastructure without depending on a single operating team or funding.
In practice, that community-approved transition meant the centralized platform work that XRD Domains previously provided, was no longer the intended operating model and a clear cut path forward was necessary. With a new, alternative and open-sourced protocol designed to be durable and registrar-agnostic, XRD Domains was deprecated and subsequently closed as an active service.