Your wallet will open and you will be asked to confirm the first of two transactions required for registration. If the second transaction is not processed within 7 days of the first, you will need to start again from step 1.
How do I complete the registration? There is no trace in my account page about my attempt to register a domain. How can I find the place to complete the registration?
Once you find the transaction, it will show you what happened to your $40 in gas fee… if your not sure what you are looking at or for - you can post the transaction hash in this thread… if you feel comfortable sharing that information.
Thank you. Yah, I can find the transaction. After completing 1st transaction as I have 7 days to complete the second transaction & the registration, how can I continue this from where it failed and try the second transaction again and try to complete the registration?
My understanding of the process and the smart contract is that the first step inserts your Ethereum address as an authorized ENS domain controller. Since that transaction completed successfully, you should be able to register your domain without restarting the process. Upon connection with the same wallet address and same domain listed in the interface, the blockchain should be read… and the “Register” button should be available… there should be no “Request to Register” option with the same wallet and same domain.
This is what I was hoping for as well. But when I enter the domain name and click search, i only get the request to register button … Yah I am connected to the same wallet address and trying the same domain name as well …
Is there any other way I can get back into the registration process by manually doing something?
If you click on “Request to Register” and DON’T ACCEPT the transaction… but instead click on the “Data” tab in the transaction box… you should see a 32 byte string of hexadecimal numbers. My understanding is that this string should be the same as the one included in the original “Request to Register” transaction listed on Etherscan.
Once you record the 32 byte string, “Reject” the transaction.
I got the hex number, but I cannot find a matching string in the original request to register transaction in Etherscan. What can I do with this hex string? Is there some way I can “get back in” the smart contract to finish the job?
You can locate the string on the Etherscan interface by scrolling to the bottom of the main screen and clicking to expand the “Click to see more” arrow…
Press the “Decode” button in the Data section.
And compare the 32 byte string.
If it’s the same… I’m not sure why the ens manager interface is coming up with a “Request to Register”.
If it’s different… again, It’s unclear why it would be different.
I believe you can use the on-chain 32 byte commit data to write a new registration contract using Etherscan. However, I’m not sure I’m smart enough to assist you in that endeavor in an error free way.
It is actually two different strings … I guess something has gone wrong somewhere …
It sure is interesting to see if its possible to do it using Etherscan! I have no idea where to start. I can see there is a commit field, I guess the original hex code goes in here. Should I use register or register with config? any idea what should go in duration and secret?
I’m sure you know hell of a lot more than me, so, lets give it a try! worst case we learn something and best case we make it work!
The “secret” seems to be retrievable from the web data…
I’m using Brave Browser, which a fork of Chromium. If I right click on the ens manager page and choose “Inspect”, I can find a “secret” value for my attempt at registering zeropointzero:
Perhaps you can locate the first “secret” if you haven’t closed your browser or cleared your cache. Perhaps this is the “secret” to put in that field in the smart contract.
If anyone smarter than me happens along, please step in and yell “STOP!” before OP spends a lot in gas.
Ah yah! I forgot the matter of $300! Still I guess worth a try …
I found the secret as well, i hadnt closed the browser, so it is still there … Very cool!!!
duration i guess is how many years, what I am not sure is what format it should be … is it 1 or something else?
Since we’re attempting to write a smart contract by hand, it might be better to switch Metamask over to a test net and try it out without needing to spend any actual ETH…
I’m not sure which test net the ENS smart contract might have been loaded. I’ve used goerli test net before for a few experiments with simple contract writing. I think you can load the contract source code on the test net through copy and paste on Remix:
Apparently, the ENS contracts are already deployed on all testnets !
So, you might be able to try entering in your “secret” and commit information and see what happens without spending any actual monetarily important funds. You’ll still need to visit the testnet faucet to obtain testnet ETH to pay for the transaction.
Hi, does anybody know if it is possible to register 5 or 10 domains and to pay one gas fee or It is only possible to pay gas fee for every registration?
FWIW - I registered teakdust.eth the other night, took step 1) at midnight PST. Step 2) waited few minutes and boom gas fees were $9-10k.
Checked back 18 hours later and the gas fee was estimating ~$270 so I went for it.
I may have been lucky to still be able to take step 3 that much later, I’ve read a few stories about getting blocked out and repeating the first transaction.
The first step should not be lost if you cancel the third step. The first step saves information into your browser local storage. That info is not lost if you cancel the third step transaction. You should be able to restart the process later and be already on the third step. This is the way it should work anyway.
Yah I am connected to the same wallet address and trying the same domain name as well …