Subgroup Name : .eth Websites Subgroup (also posted in Public Goods WG)
Subgroup Lead Coordinator: @neiman and @Elle97
Purpose of Subgroup: We propose a subgroup to be the point of contact for the .eth websites community. This group will focus on solving the main challenges of .eth websites (see more below).
.eth websites are decentralized websites based on ENS in combination with other technologies such as IPFS, IPNS, or Skynet. You can read about it in the article “Introduction to decentralized websites”
.eth websites are a use-case of ENS, that grows rapidly. There are already over 2K websites indexed by esteroids.eth.limo. Recently even Vitalik Buterin started to spread his publication with a .eth website, vitalik.eth.limo.
This subgroup will aid .eth websites owners to be part of ENS DAO and will represent the point of view of .eth websites in the DAO governance. Specifically, we will focus on the following challenges for .eth websites:
- Discoverability: how do users discover .eth websites? for example with our .eth website search engine, esteroids.eth.limo.
- Accessibility: tools for accessing .eth websites, such as .eth.limo gateway, browsers extensions, or native integration in browsers.
- Community: grow the .eth websites community with activities such as making standards or a decentralized website of the week award we organize.
- Exposure: promote and bring awareness to .eth websites in the web3 community.
- Tooling: promote the creation of tools for building .eth websites. We already started doing this recently in our community with dWeb services.
- Innovation: promote innovative use-cases of .eth websites in order to unlock the potential of the field.
What is Esteroids (=Ethereum Asteroids)? Esteroids is a project for .eth websites. We maintain a .eth Search engine for .eth websites, a .eth website bot, and recently launched community services for .eth website.
The .eth website community is active in our Discord server, where people create experiments, publish tutorials or establish collaborations. Additionally, we also organize a “decentralized website of the week award award” for .eth websites, to bring attention to the field. This proposal is made with communication with other major entities in the .eth websites ecosphere, such as .eth.limo gateway.
Potential Contributors (# or names): @tomlightning
Additional Comments: Our vision is of a democratic web of .eth websites, based on ENS technology. We believe that people should be members of the web and not only users. In our vision, the .eth web itself and its major platforms are managed like a DAO, by the .eth Web users.