diff --git a/gno.land/cmd/gnoland/start.go b/gno.land/cmd/gnoland/start.go
index f392785bd6d..77d7e20b8ef 100644
--- a/gno.land/cmd/gnoland/start.go
+++ b/gno.land/cmd/gnoland/start.go
@@ -58,7 +58,6 @@ type startCfg struct {
 	genesisRemote         string // TODO: remove as part of https://github.com/gnolang/gno/issues/1952
 	genesisFile           string
 	chainID               string
-	chainDomain           string
 	dataDir               string
 	lazyInit              bool
 
@@ -123,13 +122,6 @@ func (c *startCfg) RegisterFlags(fs *flag.FlagSet) {
 		"the ID of the chain",
 	)
 
-	fs.StringVar(
-		&c.chainDomain,
-		"chaindomain",
-		"gno.land",
-		"the domain of the chain for packages",
-	)
-
 	fs.StringVar(
 		&c.gnoRootDir,
 		"gnoroot-dir",
diff --git a/gno.land/cmd/gnoland/testdata/genesis_params.txtar b/gno.land/cmd/gnoland/testdata/genesis_params.txtar
index 43ecd8ccacb..07094593b83 100644
--- a/gno.land/cmd/gnoland/testdata/genesis_params.txtar
+++ b/gno.land/cmd/gnoland/testdata/genesis_params.txtar
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 
 gnoland start
 
+# official params (right now they makes sense to be tested in a txtar to validate that a default "gnoland" initialization will have default values)
+gnokey query params/vm/gno.land/r/sys/params.vm.chain_domain.string
+stdout 'data: "gno.land"$'
+
+# test params
 gnokey query params/vm/gno.land/r/sys/params.test.foo.string
 stdout 'data: "bar"$'
 gnokey query params/vm/gno.land/r/sys/params.test.foo.int64
@@ -10,5 +15,5 @@ gnokey query params/vm/gno.land/r/sys/params.test.foo.uint64
 stdout 'data: "42"'
 gnokey query params/vm/gno.land/r/sys/params.test.foo.bool
 stdout 'data: true'
-# XXX: bytes
+# XXX: consider adding a test with bytes