We all love to reap the benefits of advanced technologies, but anyone hardly ever wants to deal with the technical complexities that come with them. To search for websites and URLs, just as DNS was created to make the numbered address easier for human access, similarly, ENS is a protocol that links machine-generated codes to human-friendly names.
A crypto wallet user still can't send or receive digital assets by simply typing in another user's name. This practice might change though thanks to the rise of Ethereum Name Service (ENS), a blockchain-powered service that recently registered its one millionth domain name. Currently, there are more than one million active ENS domains, and thousands of new domains are being registered through the platform daily. ENS domains that consist of four digits or fewer are the most popular, likely due to their rarity. Only 10,000 of these exist, and they sold out within six hours of their release. Some have recently sold on secondary for amounts up to 90 ETH (about $255,000).
The system has been going for a few years and was even funded by Ethereum itself. But while the Ethereum Name Service is based on the Ethereum blockchain, it doesn't only use Ether. You can send and receive pretty much any kind of cryptocurrency with the system's wallets, although the service's annual fees are payable in Ether. The system's own token, ENS, is only used for governance purposes at present. It is only recently, though, that ENS has been available on the open market, which makes an Ethereum Name Service price prediction tricky, because there is fewer data to go on, meaning less of a percentage time frame to transfer forward.
According to the ENS technical documentation, the naming system was developed to "map human-readable names like alice.eth to machine-readable identifiers such as Ethereum addresses, other cryptocurrency addresses, content hashes, and metadata".
Even though past performance is never any indication of future results, especially when there is relatively little to go on, if we are trying to estimate the coin's future worth then the Ethereum Name Service price history is still worth looking at to see how ENS has responded to various market activities over the past few months. The Ethereum Name Service coin has been trading openly since the end of 2021. When it came out on 9 November that year it was worth $33.66 and, even though it fell to an intraday low of $22.92, it rebounded to close the day at $43.66.
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