@som is the Handle dedicated to Somalia. Handle is the NFT-powered naming solution for your wallets & more, secured on Cardano.
@som
The Handle dedicated to Somalia.
Own your identity in the digital world.
It all starts with a Handle, secured on Cardano.
@som
Your Handle is unique. Mint it. Own it. Use it.
A Handle for your Web3 identity
Log into the decentralized web quickly and securely without sacrificing your privacy.
A Handle for Somalia
Easily recognizable, the country-code SOM is the root Handle. Ideal to highlight your affiliation with Somalia!
A Handle for getting paid
Simplify the process of sending and receiving crypto with user-friendly, easily recognizable names instead of complicated addresses.
Backed by the $handle Standard.
100% secured on-chain
Secured as a native asset on Cardano. Sending funds to your Handle is secure.
Minted & upgradable NFT Handles
Mint your Handle as an NFT and receive it directly in your Cardano wallet.
True ownership
No subscription fees or recurring costs. It's yours to keep, sell or use forever.
25+ Integrations & Partnerships
The key to your Digital Identity
Your name for Web3 starts with a @som Handle
Build your brand
Amina runs a jewelry business in Mogadiscio. She stores her logo, website's URL, portfolio and social links in her Ada Handle's metadata, that travels with her as she builds her brand on a range of marketplaces and dApps.
Increase your credibility
Amina's Handle indicates her affiliation with Somalia. Customers easily recognize her @som handle and shop with more confidence, as her business gains in discoverability and presence.
Make transactions easy
Amina collects payments from customers directly to her jewel@som Handle, in ADA or any other tokens on the Cardano blockchain.
Enhance your digital experience
With his Handle, Sandile transformed his Web3 experience. Apps seamlessly adapts their interface and settings to his preferences, set in his Handle's metadata.
Own your identity
With the privacy tools offered by Handle, Sandile can add, edit or delete his associated metadata whenever he wants. He chooses precisely what can be seen and by who. When he makes a purchase, he can allow the online store to read his physical address stored in his Handle to deliver his order.
Showcase your NFTs collection
Sandile uses his Handle to display and promote his NFT collection on Pixl.
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@muqdisho
A perfect Handle if you're in Mogadishu
Mogadishu, the capital city of Somalia, is located in the horn of Africa and bordering the Red Sea. The city has served as an important port connecting traders across the Indian Ocean for millennia, and has an estimated population of over 2,4 million.
Why should you grab one:
Easy to remember.
Make the city a part of your digital identity
Available now. In your wallet within 5 minutes.
@afr
Reach the African continent.
Home to over 1.2 billion people, Africa is primed to see an exponential increase in Web3 technology and apps usage.
@afr is our shortest Handle dedicated to Africa. This is a great Handle for organisations, businesses, and people who want to expand beyond the shores of Somalia and break through the African community and market.
Why should you grab one:
The most popular Handle for the African market.
Short, easy to recognize and remember.
Available now. In your wallet within 5 minutes.
@afrique
Reach the French-speaking African population.
Did you know Africa is home to 130 millions French speakers and French is being spoken in 29 African countries?
@afrique is a great Handle if you want to target the French-speaking countries of Africa.
Why should you grab one:
Ideal to reach the French-speaker in Africa.
Instantly recognizable.
Available now. In your wallet within 5 minutes.
@afrika
A Handle to Unite. With a strong meaning.
If you want to build a strong global Afrikan brand, there could be no better Handle to target your audience than an @afrika Handle.
The K is not a typo.
@afrika is written with a K, as do many traditional languages in Africa. The K symbolises a kind of Lingua Afrikana. The conscious choice to spell Afrika in its original form is to acknowledge native Afrikan dialects in their purest forms.
Spelling Afrika with a “K” is a symbol of unity to form a stronger and wiser continent. Be part of the movement, grab your @afrika Handle.
Why should you grab one:
Showcase your identity.
Ideal for anyone in Afrika.
Available now. In your wallet within 5 minutes.
Follow these four steps to register your suba Handle:
To make the most of your Handle, ensure that it:
represents you, your business, or your products.
is easy to spell and remember.
Check availability
Use the search box to see if your desired Handle is available for registration.
Make the payment
Pay for your desired Handle using ₳ (Ada) on the portal.
Receive your Handle NFT
You will receive your Handle as an NFT. The wallet holding this NFT is where payments will be directed.
Use and share your new Handle
Others can now send you funds or tokens directly to your Handle.
Pricing
Pricing is determined by the length of the Handle:
Basic
| Minted NFT Handle |
| Full ownership |
| Personalizable |
| No reccuring fees |
Common
| Minted NFT Handle |
| Full ownership |
| Personalizable |
| No reccuring fees |
Rare
| Minted NFT Handle |
| Full ownership |
| Personalizable |
| No reccuring fees |
Why get a suba Handle instead of a Handle?
1. Country codes are well-known
We're not introducing anything new – everyone knows and searches for their country code and country-specific websites.
2. Handles can be costly
The best Handles are often taken and sold at high prices on secondary markets. Our suba Handles offer better value.
3. Suba Handles are more meaningful
With a glance, you can easily identify where a person, business, or organization is from.
4. Join a community
Your suba Handle is a part of a national community. It will also hold more value within your country.
Why trust suba?
Connecting Africa is our mission. One Handle at a time.
Still not sure what Handle you need? We’re happy to help. Join our Discord and we'll chat, or get back to you as soon as we can.
We do not plan to sell our root Handles, ever. Build your name or brand with no stress, knowing we are your long term partner.
We provide simple pricing tiers, with our basic Handles starting from only 5₳ (Ada). You fully own your Handle, there is no recurring fees or ending terms to keep in mind.
Ada Handle is a system for creating names on the Cardano blockchain that is easy to use and affordable. It is powered by a reliable blockchain network. Its main purpose is to convert a user-friendly alias into its corresponding Cardano address, and vice versa. This translation is consistent for all users, so everyone sees the same address for a given alias.
Elevate your Web 3 presence with Suba (Handle.Africa), we are committed to provide affordable, meaningful, and recognizable Handles to every person and organization in Africa.
As the exclusive owner of ISO country-code root Handles and city and country names Handles, we give you the ability to fully own and control your digital identity. And because we believe in the importance of true ownership, we only sell minted NFT Handles – no virtual subHandles here. Join the Suba community and take control of your online identity today!
ISO 3166-1 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that defines codes for the names of countries. ISO 3166-1 two-letter country codes are the most widely used, most prominently for the Internet's country code top-level domains.
The three-letter country codes allow a better visual association between the codes and the country names than the two-letter codes.
suba Handles are subHandles using our root Handles country codes.
SubHandles are an extension of Handles designed to allow individuals, companies, and everyone else to mint additional Handles associated with a name or, in our case, country codes.
For example, $som is our root Handle, and chipo@som is a subHandle.
SubHandles are almost identical to the root Handles and exist in the same CIP-25 NFT format.
Handles and suba Handles can be equally personalized and used.
There will be as many suba Handles as you want. There is no limit. Provided that the Handle has not been previously minted, you’ll be able to mint them.
It is not possible to reserve a Handle. Handles are allocated on a first come, first served basis. Grab yours before someone else does!
Handles are limited to the following UTF-8 characters:
Alphanumeric: a to z and 0 to 9
Dash: -
Underscore: _
Period: .
Yes, we will offer a way for the data attached to Handles to be optionally verified using a trustless system.
No, every suba Handle is converted to lowercase.
Yes! You can sell your suba Handle on any Cardano NFT marketplace.
Cardano is a proof-of-stake blockchain platform: the first to be founded on peer-reviewed research and developed through evidence-based methods. It combines pioneering technologies to provide unparalleled security and sustainability to decentralized applications, systems, and societies.
With a leading team of engineers, Cardano exists to redistribute power from unaccountable structures to the margins – to individuals – and be an enabling force for positive change and progress.