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Ethereum Name Service (ENS) Feed: Events, News & Roadmap
Ethereum Name Service to Hold AMA on X on April 10th
Ethereum Name Service will host an AMA on X on April 10th. The special guest for the session will be Fluidkey. The discussion will revolve around Flui…
Ethereum Name Service to Hold AMA on X on April 3rd
Ethereum Name Service will host an AMA on X on April 3rd. The event aims to provide insights and updates about the ongoing projects and initiatives wi…
Ethereum Name Service to Hold AMA on X on March 20th
Ethereum Name Service will host an AMA on X on March 20th at 18:00 UTC. The special guest for the event will be 3DNS. The discussion will revolve arou…
Ethereum Name Service to Hold AMA on X on February 28th
Ethereum Name Service will host an AMA on X with Uniswap Labs on February 28th.
Ethereum Name Service to Hold AMA on X on February 21st
Ethereum Name Service will host an AMA on X on February 21st with a guest from the QuickNode. The discussion will focus on the importance of blockchai…
Ethereum Name Service to Hold AMA on X on February 14th
Ethereum Name Service will host an AMA on X on February 14th at 19:00 UTC. The special guest for the event will be Smart Layer. The discussion will pr…
Ethereum Name Service to Hold AMA on X on February 7th
Ethereum Name Service will host an AMA on X featuring Paul Nicks, the president of domains at GoDaddy. The event will take place on February 7th at 7 …
Ethereum Name Service to Hold AMA on X on January 31st
Ethereum Name Service will host an AMA on X on January 31st. The discussion topics will include ENS, Gossip Protocol, and Chipped among other things.
Ethereum Name Service to Hold AMA on X on January 24th
Ethereum Name Service will host an AMA on X on January 24th at 19:00 UTC. The discussion will revolve around the latest developments and advancements …
Ethereum Name Service to Hold AMA on X on January 17th
Ethereum Name Service will host an AMA on X on January 17th. The focus of the discussion will be the integration of Phantom wallet into the ENS manage…
Ethereum Name Service to Hold AMA on X on January 10th
Ethereum Name Service will host an AMA on X on January 10th at 19:00 UTC. The focus of this week’s space will be a review of the significant ENS devel…
Ethereum Name Service to Host Community Call on December 13th
Ethereum Name Service will host a community call on December 13th. The purpose of the event is to provide a recap of the third and fourth quarters of …
Ethereum Name Service to Hold AMA on X
Ethereum Name Service will host an AMA on X on November 15th at 19:00 UTC. The special guest for this session will be ETH.LIMO. The discussion will re…
Ethereum Name Service to Hold AMA on X on November 1st
Ethereum Name Service will host an AMA on X on November 1st. The discussion will revolve around the integration of legal agreements with smart contrac…
Ethereum Name Service to Hold AMA on X
Ethereum Name Service will host an AMA on X on October 18th at 18:00 UTC. The discussion will revolve around web3 mobile numbers and the use of Ether…
Ethereum Name Service to Hold AMA on X
Ethereum Name Service will host an AMA on X on October 11th at 18:00 UTC. The special guest for this episode will be 3DNS. The discussion will primari…
Ethereum Name Service to Hold AMA on X
Ethereum Name Service will host an AMA on X on October 4th at 18:00 UTC. The discussion will revolve around the TKN on-chain token database, SWP.eth, …
Ethereum Name Service to Participate in DevConnect in Istanbul on November 13th
Ethereum Name Service is set to host an event named frENSday. The event is scheduled to take place in Istanbul on November 13th. The occasion is part …
Ethereum Name Service to Hold AMA on X
Ethereum Name Service will host an AMA on X on September 27th at 18:00 UTC. The focus of the discussion will be a recap of the ETHGlobal hackathon whi…
Ethereum Name Service to Hold AMA on X
Ethereum Name Service will host an AMA on X on September 20th at 18:00 UTC. The special guest for the event will be Push Protocol. The discussion will…
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What is Ethereum Name Service?
The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) is a distributed, open, and extensible naming system based on the Ethereum blockchain.
ENS’s job is to map human-readable names like ‘alice.eth’ to machine-readable identifiers such as Ethereum addresses, other cryptocurrency addresses, content hashes, and metadata. ENS also supports ‘reverse resolution’, making it possible to associate metadata such as canonical names or interface descriptions with Ethereum addresses.
ENS has similar goals to DNS, the Internet’s Domain Name Service, but has significantly different architecture due to the capabilities and constraints provided by the Ethereum blockchain. Like DNS, ENS operates on a system of dot-separated hierarchical names called domains, with the owner of a domain having full control over subdomains.
Top-level domains, like ‘.eth’ and ‘.test’, are owned by smart contracts called registrars, which specify rules governing the allocation of their subdomains. Anyone may, by following the rules imposed by these registrar contracts, obtain ownership of a domain for their own use. ENS also supports importing in DNS names already owned by the user for use on ENS.
Because of the hierarchal nature of ENS, anyone who owns a domain at any level may configure subdomains - for themselves or others - as desired. For instance, if Alice owns 'alice.eth', she can create 'pay.alice.eth' and configure it as she wishes.