A wallet on another ark server tells the registrar it is listening, so Lightning sent to its name arrives the moment it opens. A name whose wallet lives on Second (or a custom server) can only be paid over Lightning — the registrar's float can't arkoor to a server it isn't on — and only while the wallet is open to answer the registrar's offer request; its hourly retry with a six-second window rarely met a short phone session, and manna's 52 sats failed 449 times from 2026-10-18 to 11-03. Once the offer listener is up (nwc listen(), a beat after subscribing), the names feature POSTs /listening (NIP-98, coinosv3-server 14a6dd5) and the registrar sends whatever is queued for the name at once. Once per ten minutes, and never for a wallet on the coinos server: it is paid while asleep and spends no signature on this. tools/names-listening-test.js: nothing on coinos's server, one authed call on Second, no second within ten minutes, a registrar that is down is asked again next time

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VMan6TFgisGKUDhdStLUvs

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/features/names.js b/src/features/names.js
index d57bb19..e07e025 100644
--- a/src/features/names.js
+++ b/src/features/names.js
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import { nip98Header } from '../nip98.js';
 import { qrSvg } from '../qr.js';
 import { bech32 } from '@scure/base';
 import { isArkAddress } from './ark.js';
-import { getNetwork } from '../api.js';
+import { getNetwork, getArkProviderId } from '../api.js';
 import { t } from '../i18n.js';
 import { getCurrency } from '../rates.js';
 
@@ -411,6 +411,7 @@ export function namesFeature(ctx) {
   // should have to retype who they already are — but only when that name is
   // actually free on the registrar (or already theirs to retake).
   let lnReceipts = { at: 0, p: null };
+  let listeningAt = 0;
 
   let suggestedFor = null;
   function suggestName() {
@@ -959,6 +960,20 @@ export function namesFeature(ctx) {
       };
       return lnReceipts.p;
     },
+    // A wallet on another ark server (Second, a custom one) gets its name's
+    // Lightning receives only while it is open to answer the registrar's
+    // offer request — the registrar can't arkoor to a server it has no
+    // float on — and its hourly retry rarely met a short session (52 sats
+    // waited 449 tries, 2026-10-18 → 11-03). So once the offer listener is
+    // up, say so: whatever is queued for this name goes now. Once per ten
+    // minutes; a wallet on the coinos server is paid while asleep and
+    // never needs to (and never spends a signature on it).
+    namesListening() {
+      if (!available() || !load().name || getArkProviderId() === 'coinos') return null;
+      if (Date.now() - listeningAt < 600_000) return null;
+      listeningAt = Date.now();
+      return post('/listening', 'POST', {}).catch(() => { listeningAt = 0; return null; });
+    },
     // the claimed payment address, for anyone prefilling a lightning address
     namesAddress() { const st = load(); return st.name ? `${st.name}@${st.domain || DOMAIN()}` : null; },
     // Sign-in races this lookup against the seed work: by the time the