In Brief:
- ENS put lots of effort and taken a long time in making
- DNS name imported on ENS have no ENS protocol fees at all
Now the owner of a DNS second-level domain name can use the same name on Ethereum Name Service (ENS). ENS announced that the integration with DNS is now live on the Ethereum mainnet.
According to ENS Director of Operation Brantly Millegan said, “if you own example.com on DNS, you can import it into ENS-as example.com not example. eth, the latter is a separate name.” You can then set ENS records for it. You can then send and receive ETH and other assets, including Dogecoin, via that .com (or .edu, org ) name.
For the ENS it had taken a long time in making this. DNS names imported on ENS have no ENS protocol fees at all. ENS fees are for discouraging squatting & the DNS name already have a fee on the DNS side. Moreover, ENS launched in May 2017 only supporting the ENS native TLD.ETH. ENS has always been capable in principle of supporting more TLDs. ETS received a generous grant from both the Ethereum foundation and ETC Labs for these features.
The Future
ENS has only started.ETH names for Ethereum addresses, it has grown to be a full-fledged extension of DNS. It allows new set of use cases like portable web3 username and profile, payment in any crypto and decentralized website. This is just the beginning of a much bigger vision for ENS.
