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· 6 min read
chosen.eth

The month of May was nothing short of exciting, not for the market..but for the integrations and projects who integrated with ENS. Just to name a few of the big ones: Ledger, Uniswap, Decentraland, PancakeSwap, and Farcaster. This list encompasses some of the biggest players within Web3 and this is just to name a few. On the other side of things, there was a slower pace when it came to registrations and overall actions within ENS for May…possible meme coins continue to hold the attention of most. There were 16,351 registrations this month compared to the previous month being at 27,149. People continued to set avatars for their names as this has become a bigger part of the community initiative to creatively represent a domain.



Unlike past months, it would be irresponsible for me to change the subject and highlight other things that happened this month. The sheer amount of integrations coming from some of the biggest names within crypto and the web3 ecosystem made HUGE announcements for ENS. These integrations seemingly pave the way for ENS to easily become a mainstream, automatic action for new users to take when onboarding into the web3 ecosystem. Here’s some of my thoughts when it comes to these integrations, who, and how I expect this to play out. First up, we have Uniswap..possibly the de facto king DEX. This ENS integration is great because Uniswap users aren’t necessarily “domain fanatics”. This onboards a vast majority of crypto users who may not have understood how ENS can simplify their lives.


To finish the highlights of integrations, we have Worldcoin. This is a project that sets out to revolutionize the financial industry allowing anyone to be a part of the world economy on the digital scale, and have a digital identity to back them up. Worldcoin is backed by the founder of OpenAI, Sam Altman. These are the types of projects that bring the ENS protocol to people who have very likely no experience when it comes to using ENS domains and the capabilities it can offer. Seeing Worldcoin use ENS as a part of their online application to easily transfer money P2P will only fuel more projects to take this step.

🤑 Top Sales​

As for top sales this month, we’ve got another change that can keep all of us looking forward to what might happen in the bull market:

  1. 088.eth - 28.88 ETH
  2. roblox.eth - 20 wETH
  3. 0x8200.eth - 16.66 ETH
  4. curvefi.eth - 16.52 ETH
  5. guccifit.eth - 13.89 wETH

🔟 Top Ten​

The top ten this month is almost identical as it was last month, almost all 3D domains. Just like last month, there were a few names that seemed to stand out from all the digits, here’s just a few of those:

  1. roblox.eth - sold for 20 wETH (this name needs no explanation)
  2. star.eth - sold for 11.08 ETH (sniped on premium, great name)
  3. team.eth - sold for 8 wETH (great price for unlimited use cases)

(small note that olivia.eth selling for 5 ETH isn’t a steal but for that price, there’s still tons of room for both sides of deal to be happy).

🔎 Monthly Similar Search​

Similar to last month, and now a Kodex ENS Monthly Roundup staple, we found you some gems 💎 similar to those of the top monthly sales. Below are a few that we find interesting and still available to be registered:

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The "Similar Search" is powered by Kodex’s custom natural language model, which we are constantly improving to make it better at finding great ENS domains.

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(in this similar search, we used the following words to find unregistered domains: roblox, team, olivia, star, rover, recon, florence, and classic ).

🙏 Your Saving Grace​

When it comes to Grace Period, the ENS power users flourish. Below are just a couple of names found using similar search that are currently on grace:

  • 2022.eth - very significant year in the ENS history book.
  • mca.eth - last sold for 0.56 ETH.
  • tri.eth - last sold for .30 ETH
  • godwin.eth - first name and last name, this one is already on premium.
  • pumps.eth - the nft pumps are getting out of hand, on premium.

🌀 Random Spin​

Similar to last month, below are some domains that are randomly chosen throughout multiple different categories based on Kodex’s similar search mechanism:

  • examines.eth - my doctor examines at least five nostrils a day.
  • adjoining.eth - would you like to have adjoining rooms or no?
  • debating.eth - there's going to be a lot of this going on over the next few months.
  • exiles.eth - the sultan of fakeland exiles three people every year.

🎬 Conclusion​

To end this month's roundup, I just want to touch on the integrations and how good it is to see these things happening..in a BEAR market. See the likes of Ledger, Uniswap, PancakeSwap, Decentraland, and many many others integrate with ENS and allow their users to not only bring their existing names into their applications but new users who don’t own a single ENS domain, acquire their first with ease. As more and more of these projects, companies, and coins add support for ENS, the masses will flow. ENS has established itself as the go-to naming system for the web3 ecosystem and it’s only going to exponentially grow when the bull market returns. Maybe one day we’ll see Twitter integrate ENS names, something that would change the game entirely. It’s not something that is outside of happening as even Elon transitions his new “X” app into the web3 ecosystem.

· 6 min read
chosen.eth

Although this month has been slow, it is important to note that there were still significant developments within the community and the ENS DAO. For instance, despite the slow market for holders, there were 27,149 new names registered in April. Additionally, with an average price of GWEI at 38.55, people still went ahead to set avatars for their names, with a total of 3,001 avatars set during the month. It is worth highlighting that, despite the overall decline in the crypto market, new users are continually discovering the ENS protocol and registering names, resulting in 17,795 new ethereum wallets holding at least one ENS domain.




In other news, ENS just celebrated its 6th birthday! This is an incredible milestone for not only the DAO, early believers, squatters, and any other normie who believes in the ENS ecosystem and having a digital identity, but also web3 as a whole. ENS has positioned itself to be the digital identity leader when it comes to providing utility around the protocol and giving users complete control of what they do with their domains.

Another big development throughout the month of April was that the new ENS Manager App was released and is as beautiful as you’d expect. The one and only dr3a.eth wrote a phenomenal thread about the changes throughout the app and how to go about navigating the new interface.


To finish, the ENS Director vote took place over the past weeks with only two candidates throwing their hats into the ring. The first and most popular is avsa.eth. Avsa, aka Alex Van de Sande is a very well respected member within the inner circle of the ENS DAO as well as stewarding the Public Goods for ENS. The second candidate, 3531.eth or better known as Sean Murray. Sean is the creator of multiple tools that help push the ENS ecosystem forward as well as being an active and loud member of the ENS Twitter Community. Long story short, the popularity contest ended with Avsa winning by a wide margin and he will soon be implemented as the new director in place of the outgoing Brantly Milegan. I’d like to add, although Sean didn’t win, I commend him for throwing his name out there up against inevitable odds. It wouldn’t hurt to have someone from within the community as a vocal leader within the official DAO ranks.

🤑 Top Sales​

As for top sales this month, we’ve got a nice change for once. Two words lead the way fetching absolutely huge prices in a slow market for sellers. Outside of those two words, digits continue to perform the way you’d expect. With one of the most memorable and common digit sequences being sold for a very respectable price:

  1. mazars.eth - 93 ETH
  2. epic.eth - 25 ETH
  3. 1234.eth - 15 ETH
  4. 904.eth - 11.9 ETH
  5. 253.eth - 10.5 ETH

🔟 Top Ten​

The top ten this month is almost identical as it was last month, almost all 3D domains. Just like last month, there were a few names that seemed to stand out from all the digits, here’s just a few of those:

  1. yoga.eth - sold for 5.5 wETH (so many options and doors opened with this name)
  2. tea.eth - sold for 5.5 wETH (another domain that’s self explanatory with huge potential)
  3. katherine.eth - sold for 2 wETH (great price for worldwide female name)

(small note that yoga.eth selling for 5.5 ETH isn’t a steal but for that price, there’s still tons of room for both sides of deal to be happy).

🔎 Monthly Similar Search​

Similar to last month, and now a Kodex ENS Monthly Roundup staple, we found you some gems 💎 similar to those of the top monthly sales. Below are a few that we find interesting and still available to be registered:

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The "Similar Search" is powered by Kodex’s custom natural language model, which we are constantly improving to make it better at finding great ENS domains.

  • doctrine.eth - a belief or set of beliefs held and taught by a group, church, or similar.
  • batch.eth - a group of something, maybe a batch of cookies?
  • positioning.eth - we should all be positioning for the next ENS wave.
  • peasants.eth - i really don’t need to define this word for you, peasants.
  • teller.eth - a person that works at your local bank dealing with your account.
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(in this similar search, we used the following words to find unregistered domains: yoga, tea, katherine, bed, digitals, narratives, marvin, and epic ).

🙏 Your Saving Grace​

When it comes to Grace Period, the ENS power users flourish. Below are just a couple of names found using similar search that are currently on grace:

  • seas.eth - sailing the open seas of web3, shall we?
  • ode.eth - ceremonious lyric poem that addresses and often celebrates a person.
  • riff.eth - a short repeated series of notes common in jazz and with the guitar.
  • rss.eth - one of the most well known 3 letter acronyms in the tech world.
  • riga.eth - capital of Latvia and last sold for 0.52, not a name you want to lose here.

🌀 Random Spin​

Similar to last month, below are some domains that are randomly chosen throughout multiple different categories based on Kodex’s similar search mechanism:

  • carving.eth - the act of fashioning something into a special shape or object.
  • seismic.eth - popular term for earthquakes, big events, and graphs.
  • unofficially.eth - this is unofficially the unofficial ethereum domain.
  • protested.eth - something people say they do to express their opinions.

🎬 Conclusion​

To end this month's roundup, let’s just recap a few of the awesome and interesting things that happened within the ENS community this month. ENS celebrated its 6th anniversary, a significant milestone for the DAO and web3. Additionally, the new ENS Manager App was released with great reviews for its beautiful interface and ease of use. The ENS Director vote took place, with avsa.eth emerging as the winner by a wide margin. Although 3531.eth, the second candidate, did not win; his participation in the contest was widely respected from within the ENS community.. We can only hope that a position for someone so dedicated to the community will become open. As we wrap up the month of April, we’ll all be looking forward to the name wrapper becoming a widely used tool and hopefully GWEI returning to a normal price.

· 6 min read
chosen.eth

The month of March was an interesting one to say the least. We saw a slight up-tick in the amount of domains registered, from last months 40,480 to 41,859 (3% growth). This is another healthy sign that the ecosystem continues to flourish in a slow, down market where high quality domains shine. It’s going to be interesting to see how this month's big news impacts the buying, selling, and registering of domains moving forward. There were also 24,000 new accounts holding at least one ENS domain this month, something not many can show in a market like this.




In other news, THE ENS NAME WRAPPER WAS DEPLOYED TO MAINNET! This is a step that the entire ENS community has been anticipating and waiting for. You could feel the buzz around the community this past week as the news was announced by Nick Johnson. This was celebrated around the ENS twitter community with notable tweets coming from the likes of Address.eth and Dr3a.eth.


The ability to buy, sell, rent, lease, whatever you want to do with your subdomains; will soon be possible. This is just another reason why ENS has solidified itself as the premier naming system in web3 and will continue to push utility forward.

Also, there’s rumors that the ENS DAO is in talks with the sovereign country of Ethiopia to acquire their TLD .eth 👀 This would be absolutely enormous for the ENS DAO, community, and ecosystem while putting the ENS name on the global stage next to the likes of .co and .xyz…pretty cool.

🤑 Top Sales​

As for top sales this month, as you can imagine, the digits lead the way once again. They continue to show resilience in a market that’s not been favorable to sellers..the 3D at least:

  1. 293.eth - 26.28 ETH
  2. 589.eth - 18.88 ETH
  3. 894.eth - 18.86 ETH
  4. 681.eth - 18.79 ETH
  5. 753.eth - 18 ETH

🔟 Top Ten​

The top ten this month is what you can imagine and not that interesting, all 3D domains. I will add that just outside of the top ten were quite a few cool and unique names that sold for very fair prices. Here are just a few of those:

  1. ncaa.eth - sold for 6.94 ETH (governing body for collegiate athletics)
  2. resortlist.eth - sold for 3.98 ETH (brandable domain mimicking popular “list” suffix)
  3. kent.eth - sold for 2.5 wETH. A truly great price for worldwide name and surname.

(small note that genre.eth selling for 1.2 ETH is an absolute steal, congrats to the buyer on that one).

🔎 Monthly Similar Search​

Similar to last month, and now a Kodex ENS Monthly Roundup staple, we found you some gems 💎 similar to those of the top monthly sales. Below are a few that we find interesting and still available to be registered:

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The "Similar Search" is powered by Kodex’s custom natural language model, which we are constantly improving to make it better at finding great ENS domains.

  • liveconcerts.eth - self explanatory two word domain, opportunity for concert page; in grace.
  • resorter.eth - a person who frequents resorts often; in grace.
  • stressing.eth - something ENS flippers can’t stop doing in the bear market; going into premium.
  • amsea.eth - last sold for 5 ETH (Alaska Marine Safety Education Association); in grace
  • visalist.eth - unregistered; follows the “list” suffix and business domain for visalist.io
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In this similar search, we used the following words to find unregistered domains: mattress, list, genre, resort, sergey, backstage, misk, and cantina)._**

🙏 Your Saving Grace​

When it comes to Grace Period, the ENS power users flourish. Below are just a couple of names found using similar search that are currently on grace:

  • doha.eth - capital city of Qatar and major world hub.
  • meat.eth - honestly, this is stunning..last sold for 9.5 ETH.
  • yak.eth - the long haired shaggy animal that gets angry very easily.
  • boracay.eth - one of the most famous islands in the Philippines (huge tourism sector).
  • musicproduction.eth - very high search volume, last sold for 0.075 ETH; self explanatory domain.

And a quick little bonus name that you can’t ignore: pagoda.eth 🏯

🌀 Random Spin​

Similar to last month, below are some domains that are randomly chosen throughout multiple different categories based on Kodex’s similar search mechanism:

  • zonk.eth - dictionary word meaning; to hit or strike.
  • bingsu.eth - famous korean shaved ice cream, mmm yum!
  • cashdividend.eth - do you even do stocks bro?
  • moniqua.eth - common female first name.
  • bilby.eth - kangaroo like animal found in Australia, commonly known as the Australian Easter Bunny...

⭐ The Star​

ncaa.eth - this four letter acronym sold for 6.94 ETH and stands for something that not everyone around the world, or all ENS users may know about. I’m not going to try and write a witty and informative post about what the NCAA is, let’s just see what they say for themselves: "The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a member-led organization dedicated to the well-being and lifelong success of college athletes” - ncaa.org. The NCAA represents and makes up for: 1,098 colleges or universities while also encompassing 102 separate athletic conferences, and has a staff of about 500 employees that are based in Indianapolis, Indiana. I’m not sure what else needs to be said to show how significant of a domain this is. The possibilities are actually endless and with the NCAA now having NIL (name, image, and likeness) while allowing student athletes to sign deals, get paid, and do the whole sponsorship thing…this could be an amazing investment for the buyer. If you pair this domain purchase with the news of the name wrapper, you can’t help but smile.

🎬 Conclusion​

To end this month's roundup, we need to take a moment and think about the cool things that we got in the month of March. The name wrapper was deployed to mainnet and the DAO is in talks to acquire the .eth TLD from Ethiopia, along with many other things. These main two developments will be historical moments for the ENS ecosystem, DAO, and community. Let’s buckle up and get ready for subdomains, and a potentially bull market summer!

· 4 min read
chosen.eth


February was an interesting month for ENS as the market continues to move sideways. Registrations significantly slipped from last months 56,000 to 40,480, but still, that’s very impressive action in tough market conditions. People continue to search, register, and hold domains without stressing for an end buyer...something not always practiced in web3.

🤑 Top Sales​

As for top sales, a word and prominent web3 acronym take the top spot this month; followed by the digits, of course:

  1. onyx.eth - 40 wETH
  2. pfp.eth - 40 ETH
  3. 099.eth - 27.5 ETH
  4. 042.eth - 22.5 ETH
  5. 033.eth - 20 ETH

🔟 Top Ten​

In the top ten this month, four were words and six were digits. Digits remain as the top category when it comes to liquidity and interest. Although digits are leading the way in terms of liquidity, there were some very notable sales this month on words that have impacted, and will continue to impact the market over time. Here are just a few of the ones that are notable:

  1. checks.eth - 19.99 ETH (sold to Jack Butcher - VisualizeValue Founder)
  2. nodes.eth - 5 ETH (sold to Jack Butcher - VisualizeValue Founder)
  3. johndeere.eth - 2.4 ETH

(we’d also like to note that there was a significant increase in the number of six digit domains fetching well over 1+ ETH).

🔎 Monthly Similar Search​

Similar to last week, and hopefully soon to be a Kodex ENS Monthly Roundup staple, is using Kodex’s natural language powered similar search to find domains based on this top monthly sales list. Below are a few that we find interesting and still available to be registered:

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(in this similar search, we used the following words to find unregistered domains: onyx.eth, thord.eth, checks.eth, nodes.eth, towns.eth, expats.eth, tokenise.eth, and development.eth).

🙏 Your Saving Grace​

When it comes to GRACE PERIOD, the ENS power users flourish. Below are just a couple of names found using similar search that are currently on grace:

  • topnodes.eth - high search volume and crypto relevance.
  • bestnodes.eth - high search volume and crypto relevance.
  • anlen.eth - male first name, last sold for 11 ETH.
  • ony.eth - three letter domain, long term potential if looking for lengthy investment period.
  • idchecker.eth - high search volume, self explanatory domain.

Two notable digits that are currently in GRACE PERIOD:

  • 2021.eth - (10K Club, important year for the pfp)
  • 2022.eth - (10K Club, important year for the pfp)

🌀 Random Spin​

Similar to last week, below are some domains that are randomly chosen throughout multiple different categories based on Kodex’s similar search mechanism:

⭐ The Star​

checks.eth - which sold for 19.99 to Jack Butcher, VisualizeValue and the founder of the infamous NFT collection Checks - VV Edition. This purchase is something bigger, something more interesting than any other NFT collection buying their domain name. Jack basically took the market by storm with his unmatched creativity and marketing ability. The team clearly had a plan and executed it flawlessly to not only reward the early believers but set a new meta trend within the NFT (web3) community. It’s hard to imagine that this domain purchase was solely to gain complete control over branding and more about the possibilities of the subdomains and creative output that may come. We’re all aware at this point of how ENS not only simplifies your web3 life, gives you an identity, but also can be used to reward those within a specific community through these subdomains. It’s safe to say that there’s people watching to see what Jack does with checks.eth and will follow in his footsteps..this very well may impact the wider ENS community and the utilization of subdomains.

🎬 Conclusion​

To end this, just a short thought on what may be the next big ENS category: Geographicals. Many people have had these on their radar for a long time, and it may be one of the safest plays in all of ENS from an investment standpoint. Every local city, state, and country has some sort of portal for their community members to pay taxes, update car tags, etc… The CBDC landscape will determine their market significance in due time.

· 4 min read
chosen.eth


Gm!

This blog post is the first in a series we are calling ENS Monthly Roundup. Our goal is to cover all the big sales that occurred this month, share some interesting sales we’re keeping an eye on, and provide readers with alpha in the form of similarly valuable domains that are still unregistered. Early readers will enjoy first dibs on these domains, so follow us on Twitter to get notified when these blogs get uploaded.

January saw a small rebound in terms of registrations, up to 56,000 from December’s 52,000. Still a ways off from September’s high of 437,000, but it’s good to see that people are still exploring for new domains.

🤑 Top Sales​

When it comes to sales, digits still dominate. Here’s the 5 largest sales this month:

  1. 021.eth - 38 wETH
  2. american.eth - 31 ETH
  3. ethiopia.eth - 25 ETH
  4. 260.eth - 25 wETH
  5. 233.eth - 24.94 ETH

🔟 Top Ten​

Of the top 10, 7 were 3 digit names. It’s interesting to see domains like american.eth and ethiopia.eth get attention. It’s possible that we’ll soon see a lot of attention towards country related domain names. As more and more countries begin to explore the possibilities of CBDC’s and their influence, these domains could play a huge part moving forward (whoever bought that knows the importance of Ethiopia and their TLD that ICANN is holding hostage).

Outside of the top 5, there were a few interesting sales that caught our attention:

  • babylon.eth - 20 wETH
  • boredapes.eth - 6.9 ETH
  • vaccine.eth - 4 wETH. A total steal

🔎 Monthly Similar Search​

Using Kodex’s natural language powered similar search, we browsed for unregistered domains related to countries and ancient empires. Here are some interesting ones we found:

🙏 Your Saving Grace​

There are also quite a few interesting domains currently in grace period. We found these using Kodex’s similar search.

Branching out a bit now into different categories, here are a few more interesting results from the similar search. These fall into names, characters, and dictionary words. The following selection are all currently in grace period:

🎬 Conclusion​

Just to wrap up the ENS monthly round up for January with a domain highlight:

stockx.eth (which sold for 6.9 ETH). stockx plays a huge role in how resellers move high end merchandise, sneakers, and other physical collectibles around the country.

StockX owning their ens domain would allow them to hand out subdomains to verified resellers on their platform as well as accept payments, set up their own website linking back, and all of the other features that come with owning and utilizing a .ETH domain.

Moving forward, companies that rely on everyday, normal janes and joes to profit will need to create ways to keep their “verified resellers” on their platform. Without doing any research into the buyer and seller accounts, it’s safe to assume this is just another degen buying a domain to sell to a billion dollar company when they come calling…if they come calling.