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Re:The GNU Name System by rvz on Monday July 25, 2022 @12:33PM (#32226787)
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

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Re:The GNU Name System by hnthrow1010 on Monday July 25, 2022 @12:50PM (#32227082)
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".
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