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Author: Daniel KUHN, “Consensus” magazine deputy editor -in -chief translation: good Ouba, Bitchain vision world
ENS and Manifold of ETH.LINK domain names ended
ENS Labs develops a key wallet link infrastructure, Ethereum Name Services (ENS) team, and finally reached a settlement with its potential competitors Manifold Finance.
As part of the reconciliation, ENS obviously agreed to a prohibition of degradation clauses, limiting its statement in the past 18 months of legal disputes on ETH.LINK domain names.This domain name was used as an important gateway between Web3 and Web2.Although ENS cannot comment on this, I can analyze it.
Manifold is a blockchain company, and most people have heard of it because of lawsuits with ENS.Although the project purchased ETH.LINK at a price of $ 852,000 at the Dynadot Auction in 2022 and had legal claim rights, a better way was to give up control of its control after understanding its sale.
Manifold wrote on Twitter/X in 2022: “http://eth.link has been snatched by us.” It is not clear whether the company has really owned Eth.LINK services, or what they intend to use it to do with itBecause ENS realized that the right of access to the key gateway, ENS successfully obtained a preliminary ban from the judges of the Federal District Court of Phoenix, Arizona, stopped transferring and recovered the domain name.
ENS Laboratory CEO Nick Johnson wrote in a recent DAO proposal about reconciliation that this itself opened a period of “slow lawsuits through the court”.This slow and almost unnecessary lawsuit is because Manifold has never really owned the moral rights of the service.
Since 2017, ENS Lab has used ETH.LINK as a public gateway in the Ethereum community, providing the method of accessing ENS and IPFS data on the traditional network service, and these data and the DNS (or domain name service) behind traditional websites (or domain name services) are provided with traditional websites.The architecture is not compatible.
ENS and Manifold’s twists and turns on ETH.LINK domain name disputes
ENS lost the access to ETH.LINK because the domain name was registered by the Ethereum Foundation developer and former ENS employee Virgil Griffith.Griffith was arrested for giving a lecture on the public blockchain table in North Korea, and was unable to register the domain name during the 63 -month sentence.
The complexity of the incident is that according to ENS’s lawsuit, ETH.LINK was originally registered with the online registrar and custody company Godaddy, which was originally valid until July 2023.However, the “unilateral” identification domain name has expired after the domain name of Godaddy in July 2022, and it was illegally sold to DynaDot in September of that year, although the domain name was actually valid for one year.
ENS charged in the complaint: “Godaddy has therefore deprived the plaintiff True Names LTD.’s livelihood. This sale will make a valuable cryptocurrency network unable to operate normally, and recklessly risks to expose it to a large number of malicious actors.”In addition, ENS quoted Godaddy’s service clauses that they should have been allowed to register the domain name by representing GrifFith, but Godaddy” did not reply multiple requests. “
Manifold is not a direct reason for the auction of the domain name. It is praised that Manifold does propose to return the domain name at a certain price. This move is between the domain name grabbing and request for rent.In addition, whether ENS needs to incorporate Manifold into its lawsuits that are mainly targeted at Godaddy’s behavior.(Manifold and ENS have not responded to the request for comment.)
The whole incident is not just right to some extent.Manifold seems to be ridicule ENS in many aspects. For example, I have posted on Twitter/X that ENS “actually filed a lawsuit in the name of improper competition.fair”.Manifold also submitted a motion to dismiss the lawsuit and revoke the preliminary ban that returned ENS to ENS, which is to continue to hold the adventure of the domain name.
Now, the ENS community will pay MANIFOLD for $ 300,000 (plus $ 750,000 lawyers’ fees for ENS Labs) to resolve this.Although the cryptocurrency industry has long passed the stage of litigation alone with ideological commitments and firm beliefs, this debate has indeed triggered people’s questioning of what is happening.
ENS and Manifold’s follow -up impact on ETH.LINK domain name disputes
In an interview with CoinDesk recently, Johnson pointed out that Web3 could not ignore a wider network in naively. This is why ENS still cooperates with Godddy in the court and cooperates with it.This is indeed the reason for this. This is why the domain name of ETH.LINK is so important -the bridge between the blockchain and the traditional network is priceless.
However, this unpleasant dispute is not the last time ENS resorts to law due to the ownership of intangible assets.Fairly, important projects such as ENS (it is the most commonly used way to convert the letter digital blockchain address into a human readable name) should seek self -protection.But in principle, the two registered companies argue in court are not in line with the essence of decentralization.
It is gratifying that this dispute shows the effectiveness of DAO governance.The reconciliation plan submits the ENS community voting, of which 88% of the voting rights agree to reconcile and 84% approve the legal cost of ENS Labs.However, in a strange way, this public vote also damaged ENS’s litigation strategy.
Only 11% of DAO voting rights support to continue litigation.Just as the domain name expert Andrew Allemann wrote on the Domain Name Wire, because ENS still needed to finalize the settlement with Manifold before giving up lawsuits against Godaddy and Dynadot.”The condition”.
In the ideal world, this lawsuit should help prove the value and necessity of decentralized digital identity, but in the end it seems that everything is controlled by centralized entities.
