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Alt-root .eth is getting very big, very fast

Kevin Murphy, September 2, 2022, 15:01:31 (UTC), Domain Registries

If .eth was a real domain, it would be the second-largest new gTLD and have more registrations than ccTLDs from nations as large as Spain and Japan, according to the blockchain-based registry.

Ethereum-based alt-root registry ENS Domains today tweeted that it added 301,000 new .eth domains in August, to end the month with a total of 2.17 million names. It said it now has 540,000 registrants.

For context, that’s about 10% of what .com does in a month, and about 75% of monthly registration volume for .xyz, the largest new gTLD.

The total of 2.17 million domains would make .eth bigger than .online, the current second-largest new gTLD, and would put it in the top 10 ccTLDs (of those tracked by DI).

Not bad for a niche product that won’t resolve in most browsers and is chiefly useful for addressing cryptocurrency wallets.

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Comments (3)

  1. > Not bad for a niche product that won’t resolve in most browsers and is chiefly useful for addressing cryptocurrency wallets.

    👌🏾

  2. Kostas says:

    Not just for wallet addresses. Of all the blockchain tlds, .eth is by far the most likely to succeed. It’s also backwards compatible with DNS so in a world where web3 apps play a bigger role than our current version of internet, ENS will have no problem replacing the current system

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