diff --git a/apps/pwa/src/routes/moshpit.mjs b/apps/pwa/src/routes/moshpit.mjs
index 5baf93f..940a70a 100644
--- a/apps/pwa/src/routes/moshpit.mjs
+++ b/apps/pwa/src/routes/moshpit.mjs
@@ -670,7 +670,8 @@ const claimForm = (req, prefill = "") => `
 <form method="post" action="/pit/claim" class="pit-form">
   ${csrfInput(req)}
   <label class="pit-field"><span class="pit-dot">.</span
-    ><input name="tld" placeholder="eggs" aria-label="the TLD you want" autocomplete="off" spellcheck="false"
+    ><input name="tld" placeholder="eggs — or scrambled.eggs"
+      aria-label="the ending you want, or a whole name under it" autocomplete="off" spellcheck="false"
       value="${esc(prefill)}" required></label>
   ${claimDefaults(req)}
   <button class="btn acid" type="submit">Claim it</button>
@@ -1452,7 +1453,46 @@ moshpitRouter.post("/pit/claim-bulk", requireAuth, async (req, res) => {
   return back(res, result.claimed.length ? { ok: summary } : { err: summary });
 });
 
+/**
+ * `scrambled.eggs` typed into the claim box, rather than the bare `eggs` it
+ * was built for.
+ *
+ * Someone who wants a name should not have to know that holding it is two
+ * steps — claim the ending, then mint the name under it. Do both, in that
+ * order, and report the name they actually asked for.
+ *
+ * Someone else's ending is the one case this cannot finish: minting under it
+ * is not ours to do, and whether it is for sale, taken, or simply unlisted is
+ * a question `landingFor` already answers. Hand them that card instead of
+ * inventing a second, thinner version of it here.
+ */
+async function claimFullName(req, res, { label, tld }) {
+  const owner = await getTld(tld);
+  if (owner && owner.user_id !== req.user.id) {
+    return res.redirect(`/pit?${new URLSearchParams({ name: `${label}.${tld}` })}`);
+  }
+
+  if (!owner) {
+    const claim = await registerTlds({
+      input: tld, userId: req.user.id, ownerEmail: req.user.email ?? null,
+      priceUsd: req.body?.price_usd, aliasOf: req.body?.alias_of,
+    });
+    // Lost the ending to a race, or it was reserved/malformed — either way the
+    // name underneath it cannot follow.
+    if (!claim.claimed.length) return back(res, { err: summarizeBulkClaim(claim).slice(0, 500) });
+  }
+
+  const minted = await registerName({ tld, label, userId: req.user.id, target: null });
+  if (!minted.ok) return back(res, { err: minted.error || "could not register that name" });
+  back(res, { ok: `${label}.${tld} is yours.` });
+}
+
 moshpitRouter.post("/pit/claim", requireAuth, async (req, res) => {
+  // A whole name reaches registerTlds() as a dotted token it can only reject,
+  // so it forks off before the list path rather than failing as a bad ending.
+  const asked = parseMoshpitName(req.body?.tld);
+  if (asked) return claimFullName(req, res, asked);
+
   // One ending goes through the same path as a list of one, so the settings
   // behave identically either way rather than being a bulk-only feature.
   const result = await registerTlds({
diff --git a/apps/pwa/test/moshpit-claim-full-name.test.mjs b/apps/pwa/test/moshpit-claim-full-name.test.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fca80a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/pwa/test/moshpit-claim-full-name.test.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,144 @@
+// Typing a whole name into the claim box.
+//
+// The box was built for an ending (`eggs`) and reached registerTlds(), which
+// rejects a dotted token — so `scrambled.eggs`, the thing people actually want,
+// came back as "not a valid TLD". Holding a name is really two steps, and the
+// form should do both rather than teaching the order to the visitor.
+//
+// Same harness as moshpit-pit-page.test.mjs: the real router against a
+// throwaway libsql file, skipped cleanly when the PWA deps are not installed.
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import fs from "node:fs";
+import { mkdtempSync } from "node:fs";
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
+import path from "node:path";
+import { createRequire } from "node:module";
+import { randomBytes } from "node:crypto";
+import test from "node:test";
+
+const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
+let deps = null;
+try {
+  deps = { express: require("express") };
+} catch {
+  deps = null;
+}
+
+const workdir = mkdtempSync(path.join(tmpdir(), "moshcode-claim-name-test-"));
+process.env.DATABASE_URL = `file:${path.join(workdir, "test.db")}`;
+process.env.SESSION_SECRET = "test-secret";
+
+const ME = "u1";
+const THEM = "u2";
+
+async function boot() {
+  const { migrate } = await import("../src/migrate.mjs");
+  await migrate();
+  const { run, db } = await import("../src/db.mjs");
+  const { moshpitRouter } = await import("../src/routes/moshpit.mjs");
+  const m = await import("../src/moshpit.mjs");
+
+  await run(`INSERT OR REPLACE INTO users (id,email,display_name,created_at) VALUES ('u1','a@b.c','one',1)`);
+  await run(`INSERT OR REPLACE INTO users (id,email,display_name,created_at) VALUES ('u2','x@y.z','two',1)`);
+
+  const app = deps.express();
+  app.use(deps.express.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
+  app.use((req, _res, next) => {
+    req.csrfToken = () => "csrf";
+    req.user = { id: ME, email: "a@b.c" };
+    next();
+  });
+  app.use(moshpitRouter);
+  const server = await new Promise((resolve) => {
+    const s = app.listen(0, "127.0.0.1", () => resolve(s));
+  });
+  const base = `http://127.0.0.1:${server.address().port}`;
+
+  /** POST the claim form and hand back where it sent us, without following. */
+  const claim = async (tld) => {
+    const res = await fetch(`${base}/pit/claim`, {
+      method: "POST",
+      headers: { "content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" },
+      body: new URLSearchParams({ tld }),
+      redirect: "manual",
+    });
+    return { status: res.status, location: res.headers.get("location") || "" };
+  };
+
+  return { server, db, m, claim };
+}
+
+let booted = null;
+const app = () => (booted ||= boot());
+const uniq = () => `t${randomBytes(4).toString("hex")}`;
+
+test.after(() => {
+  if (!booted) return;
+  booted.then(({ server, db }) => { server.close(); db.close?.(); })
+    .finally(() => { try { fs.rmSync(workdir, { recursive: true, force: true }); } catch { /* noop */ } });
+});
+
+const skip = { skip: !deps && "apps/pwa deps not installed" };
+
+test("claim: a whole name under a free ending takes both", skip, async () => {
+  const { claim, m } = await app();
+  const tld = uniq();
+
+  const { location } = await claim(`scrambled.${tld}`);
+
+  // The flash names what they asked for, not the ending it had to take first.
+  assert.match(location, /^\/pit\?/);
+  const q = new URLSearchParams(location.slice("/pit?".length));
+  assert.equal(q.get("ok"), `scrambled.${tld} is yours.`);
+  assert.equal(q.get("tab"), "yours");
+
+  assert.equal((await m.getTld(tld))?.user_id, ME, "the ending is claimed");
+  assert.equal((await m.getName(tld, "scrambled"))?.user_id, ME, "the name is minted");
+});
+
+test("claim: a name under an ending you already hold just mints", skip, async () => {
+  const { claim, m } = await app();
+  const tld = uniq();
+  await m.registerTld({ tld, userId: ME });
+
+  const { location } = await claim(`poached.${tld}`);
+
+  const q = new URLSearchParams(location.slice("/pit?".length));
+  assert.equal(q.get("ok"), `poached.${tld} is yours.`);
+  assert.equal((await m.getName(tld, "poached"))?.user_id, ME);
+});
+
+test("claim: someone else's ending goes to the card, and takes nothing", skip, async () => {
+  const { claim, m } = await app();
+  const tld = uniq();
+  await m.registerTld({ tld, userId: THEM });
+
+  const { location } = await claim(`fried.${tld}`);
+
+  // landingFor() already decides whether that name is for sale, taken, or
+  // simply unlisted — this must not answer that question a second time.
+  assert.equal(location, `/pit?name=${encodeURIComponent(`fried.${tld}`)}`);
+  assert.equal((await m.getTld(tld)).user_id, THEM, "not stolen");
+  assert.equal(await m.getName(tld, "fried"), null, "no name minted under someone else's ending");
+});
+
+test("claim: a bare ending still behaves exactly as before", skip, async () => {
+  const { claim, m } = await app();
+  const tld = uniq();
+
+  const { location } = await claim(tld);
+
+  const q = new URLSearchParams(location.slice("/pit?".length));
+  assert.ok(q.get("ok"), `expected a success flash, got ${location}`);
+  assert.equal((await m.getTld(tld))?.user_id, ME);
+  assert.deepEqual(await m.listNames(tld), [], "an ending on its own mints no names");
+});
+
+test("claim: a dotted token that is not a name is still refused", skip, async () => {
+  const { claim } = await app();
+
+  // Three labels is not a Moshpit name, so it must not silently become one.
+  const { location } = await claim("a.b.c");
+  const q = new URLSearchParams(location.slice("/pit?".length));
+  assert.ok(q.get("err"), `expected a refusal, got ${location}`);
+});