You did it! Please read on! Handshake provides tooling on secure naming and by owning the HNS tokens you can use it to bid on names. You can try bidding on some names before playing around with transfers. Handshake deals with scarce resources, namespaces are unique, consider registering a username/handle you like. Many good names are being registered, apologies if your preferred names are taken -- it's hard to mitigate this in a decentralized way. On the principle of understanding the protocol, it could be interesting for software engineers to go through the process of registering a name for themselves.
It takes about a day before you can do anything. This is a decentralized network without singular leaders or institutions in permanent control, so it will need time to confirm.
-After about a day for the redemption to clear on the network, you can use your HNS to register top-level domains (which could also be useful for usernames on systems which use Handshake). Replace NAME with your desired name. Please see the documentation on auctions and protocol summary for more information.
+After about a day for the redemption to clear on the network, you can use your HNS to register top-level domains (which could also be useful for usernames on systems which use Handshake). Replace NAME with your desired name. Please see the documentation on auctions and protocol summary for more information.
Name status (check a name is available): ./bin/hsd-cli rpc getnameinfo NAME
If it says "info": null, then the name is available
Open for bidding: ./bin/hsw-cli rpc sendopen NAME