Name a planet after someone you love.

Yes – naming a world is free. No payment, no account, no email address required. Your world gets its record in the catalogue and an on-screen preview of its Certificate of Discovery, forever. The printable certificate (a PDF) and the wallpaper files come with the Sealed Edition.

Sealing is the paid edition: 100 USDC on Base, paid from a crypto wallet in your browser. To begin, open the Sealed Edition.

No – and we are upfront about that. Your planet is a unique digital world generated from your name, not a real astronomical object. It carries no official naming rights with any scientific body (the IAU is the only authority that can officially name celestial objects). Book Your Planet is a free entertainment experience – a personalized, symbolic piece of imaginary space.

Neither stars nor planets can be officially named by buying a name; astronomers don’t recognise either. Here you get a whole world of your own: its own page, a place on the star map, and a certificate.

Yes, and it makes a genuinely original gift. Enter the recipient's name to generate their unique planet, then share the link so they can see the world and its Certificate of Discovery on screen. It works for birthdays, anniversaries, Valentine's Day, or anyone who loves space – and naming it costs nothing. The printable certificate (a PDF) and the wallpaper files come with the Sealed Edition.

When you claim a planet you receive: the world itself, with its own type, diameter, atmosphere, moons and rarity score; its own page, with a shareable link; a permanent catalog ID in the galactic registry; your ownership code; an interactive 3D view; and an on-screen preview of its Certificate of Discovery. All of that is free and needs no account. The printable certificate (a PDF) and the wallpaper files come with the Sealed Edition.

Right after claiming, you can optionally answer three quick "this or that" questions about how your planet would govern itself – order or freedom, progress or tradition, community or independence. Your answers sort your planet into one of eight personality types, shown on your data card and certificate as its Governance profile. A second, deeper set of five questions ("Expand your planet's DNA") adds richer flavor text on top of that same result. None of it affects your planet's actual generated attributes – it's purely optional, fictional, and just for fun. The Galactic Census on the star map shows how the whole catalog has answered so far.

Every claimed planet may transmit one signal – a permanent founding transmission: a short statement (up to 480 characters) of what your world stands for. You send it from the Sealed Edition page once your ownership code has opened your world, and once broadcast it can never be edited or recalled, the same way the planet itself can't change once claimed. If you've taken the Planet DNA quiz, the composer references your result as a starting prompt. Every signal appears in the sky on the Transmit page.

Your name is turned into a mathematical seed using a deterministic hashing algorithm. That seed generates every attribute of your planet – type, size, atmosphere, ring system, moon count, surface texture, and the discovery record text. Nothing else is mixed in: not the date, not your device, not your location. The same name always produces the same world, anywhere, on any device, forever. (We do detect your approximate country, but only to show a flag beside your name in the registry – it has no effect on the planet you get.)

The catalog contains 12 planet types: Rocky World, Desert World, Ocean World, Ice World, Forest World, Volcanic World, Carbon World, Iron World, Gas Giant, Ice Giant, Super-Puff, and the rare Binary-Lit World. Each has unique colors, surface textures, atmospheric descriptions, and visual features rendered in 2D and full 3D. Rarity ranges from Common through Uncommon and Rare to the coveted Exceptional.

Claimed planets are part of the public catalog – once claimed, yours appears in the Claimed Planets gallery and on the Star Map for anyone to browse. Your ownership code stays private to you and is the only way to prove a planet is yours, transmit its signal, or unlock its Sealed Edition, including the printable certificate – but the planet itself, including its name and attributes, is part of the shared collection.

Yes, in two ways – one by design, one very rare.

By design: the same name always produces the same planet. Type "Ada Lovelace" in Vilnius or Vancouver, today or in ten years, and you get the same world – that is the entire promise, and it is why the first person to claim a name keeps it.

By accident: two different names can, in principle, land on the same world. Your name is converted into one of about 4.3 billion possible seeds, and your catalog ID now encodes that seed completely, so two names share a world only if they share a seed. For any two given names that is roughly a one-in-four-billion chance. Across a whole catalog the odds add up the way they do for shared birthdays: at ten thousand claimed worlds, there is about a one-in-a-hundred chance that some pair somewhere shares a seed. That is small, but it is not zero, and we would rather tell you the real number than say "never". If it ever happens to you, write to hello@akai.solutions and we will sort it out by hand.

The printable Certificate of Discovery is a PDF that comes with the Sealed Edition. Claiming is free and gives you the world, its page, your ownership code and an on-screen preview of the certificate.

Once the world is sealed, open the Sealed Edition page, enter your ownership code and choose Download PDF or Print. The PDF is made for A4 or Letter and carries your planet's portrait, catalog ID, type, diameter, atmosphere, moons, rarity and claim date, with a second page for its seal record and a code that links to its page.

Save the code either way. It is the only way back to your world, and there is no account behind it and no reset.

No. Your planet is generated deterministically from your name – it will always exist. Your ownership code (BYP-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX) is the key to look it up again at any time. Save it and your planet is permanently accessible.

The Array is how the registry is spoken to. An owner may ask for one thing to be made beside their world, report something that is wrong, or say how the site should be better. What is sent is read at a reading, and an answer arrives with a night or does not arrive. Some things are never answered, and nothing here is ever rushed. The world itself is never changed: it is generated from the name it was given, and that is the one thing about it that cannot be negotiated.

The Array

Claiming is free and always will be. The Sealed Edition – 100 USDC on Base – is how the project pays for itself: the nightly reading, the chain records, hosting, and the people who build and check it. In return a sealed world gets everything listed above: every reading at full precision, a thirty-night history, and its record on-chain. What it never buys is a different sky. Sealed and free worlds are read the same and ranked the same; the site’s guards check both on every deploy.