ENS is a good example of a working concept of blockchain domains and is the only type of NFT that cannot be 'right-click saved', unlike the JPEG ones.

However, Coinbase (part of the 7 admin keyholders of ENS) had a closer look at .eth addresses and their use in their wallet and decided to remove support for it and instead use .id for their Coinbase wallet. [0]

Why did they do this? It turns out that:

   "New crypto users with no previous exposure to ENS would make the false assumption that the ".eth” domain only works" for sending and receiving $ETH."

I guess it really does make sense to anchor both .eth, .id, etc on Handshake [1] after all. The concept of ENS is fine for .eth, but it doesn't seem to be enough to prevent this sort of basic confusion.

[0] https://twitter.com/matt_willemsen/status/154901782285598310...

[1] https://handshake.org

There's also the matter that ENS "solves" the problem by reintroducing a central point of failure: the smart contract itself. Anything blockchain-adjacent really can't conceivably be called "decentralized".

ENS leads by far in the blockchain space. Almost 2 million names registered.

Stats: https://dune.com/makoto/ens

Note that ENS is not only ETH, it supports multiple coins, and it's also compatible with the legacy DNS namespace, so it's possible to import & use tlds such as .com

How many of those names are not squatted, and have non-trivial content?