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Ethereum Name Service to Release Namechain Solution in Q4
Ethereum Name Service has introduced Namechain, a purpose-built Ethereum Layer 2 solution designed to scale blockchain identity while maintaining dece…
Ethereum Name Service to Hold AMA on X on November 11th
Ethereum Name Service will host an AMA on X on November 11th at 13:00 UTC, featuring a discussion with Gaia regarding the partnership.
Ethereum Name Service to Participate in FrENSday in Bangkok on November 11th
Ethereum Name Service will participate in frENSday event in Bangkok on November 11th.
Ethereum Name Service to Hold AMA on X on September 11th
Ethereum Name Service will host an AMA on X on September 11th at 18:00 UTC. The special guest for the event will be Dentity. The discussion will revol…
Ethereum Name Service to Hold AMA on X on August 7th
Ethereum Name Service will host an AMA on X on August 7th at 19:00 UTC. The session will feature Privy as a special guest. The focus of the discussion…
Ethereum Name Service to Hold AMA on X on July 24th
Ethereum Name Service will host an AMA on X on July 24th at 19:00 UTC. The event will feature special guests from the Clave team. The discussion will …
Ethereum Name Service to Hold AMA on X on July 10th
Ethereum Name Service will host an AMA on X on July 10th. The special guest for the event will be the representative from Fileverse. The discussion wi…
Ethereum Name Service to Hold AMA on X on July 3rd
Ethereum Name Service will host an AMA on X on July 3rd at 18:00 UTC. The event will feature two projects within the ENS ecosystem. The first project …
Ethereum Name Service to Hold AMA on X on June 26th
Ethereum Name Service will host an AMA on X with Blockscout on June 26th. The focus of the event will be on Blockscout’s open-source block explorer an…
Ethereum Name Service to Hold AMA on X on June 19th
Ethereum Name Service will host an AMA on X on June 19th at 18:00 UTC. The focus of the discussion will be on the Console community platform and its i…
Ethereum Name Service to Hold AMA on X on June 12th
Ethereum Name Service will host an AMA on X on June 12th at 18:00 UTC. The discussion will focus on the Namespace platform and the significance of sub…
Ethereum Name Service to Hold AMA on X on May 15th
Ethereum Name Service will host an AMA on X on May 15th. The event will feature a special guest from Converse and will focus on the Converse messenger…
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.
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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.