Q1 (2025) Namespace Service Provider Report
(thanks to @blockful team for the pic <3)
Highlights & Launches
- New landing page launched + small branding tweaks.
- ETH Belgrade Partnership – ongoing for custom impelementation.
- Subpages Launched – a white-label, open-source solution for brands, developers, and communities to quickly spin up custom websites with subname minting embedded.
- Some features:
- SheFi Partnership (to be announced officially) – Subname minting live at shefi.namespace.ninja
- Built-in sponsored wallet to cover gas fees
- Set as primary name function enabled
- Subnames minted on Base
- ~350 .shefi.eth active primary subnames set
- 10-20 daily subname mints, expecting 10k mints.
- PizzaDAO Subnames – Launching soon, see preview: https://pizzadao.namespace.ninja/
- Mini Campaign – StaysOn.eth – Ethereum alignment campaign + stress-test for Subpages
- New Milestone hit this quarter: 30,000 SUBNAMES (and counting…)
Product Updates
Biggest update – finally complete entire infra migration from Digital Ocean to Google Cloud.
Namespace V2 App
- Current version under testing: staging.dapp.namespace.ninja (feedback welcome)
- The new listing process has recently been added and is being tested
- Separated Listing and Minting services
- Backend upgraded for scalability
- Live on Sepolia
Dev Portal Launched
- Announcement + thread.
- Dev-focused app.
- Currently supports Offchain Subnames
- 69 API keys created
- 22 names listed
- Features:
- Quickly create subnames
- Edit, update, manage records
- API key to plug into your app
- Crispy clean docs
- Scalable infrastructure
- Clean and simple UI/UX
SDK + Dev Docs
- Updating Developer documentation
- Deprecated Namespace Client – everything is running using SDK now
- Rebuilt the SDK with clearer module separation:
- @namespacesdk/offchain-manager → managing offchain subnames
- @namespace/indexer → indexing data
- @namespacesdk/mint-manager → minting subnames
- Ongoing improvements, backend refactor, and new site (in design – Figma ready)
Namespace Blog (live)
- A bit of focus on SEO, long-term content, and educational efforts.
QuickNode ENS Plugin
- Adopted by 50+ clients (all organic growth)
- Offers Subname services
- Need to update it to use our new infra
Real-time Subname Minting Alerts
- Tracking live subname mints in Discord.
Other updates
ENS-related articles (published this quarter):
- ENS lessons from the tranches (Link)
- ENS Service Providers (‘24) (Link)
- .eth stays on (Link)
- Namechain Ecosystem: Late night thoughts (Link)
- ENS: To a Billion and Beyond (Link) (December 5, 2024 but still noteworthy)
Ongoing BD Efforts – For partnership updates, see our ENS SPP2 Application.
Subname-as-a-Service – Pitching, testing, and pioneering SaaS-style ENS implementations where companies would enable and offer Subname registrations as a service along with their core service offering.
Domain Tokenization Research – Seeing a lot of interest in domain tokenization for subname usage!!! Hence, early research is underway to explore tokenized domains and streamlining their tokenization, adoption, and growth.
Namespace Rewind: A year of ENS Success (Livestream)
- Hosted a livestream highlighting ENS success in 2024
- Guests: @AvsA, @Griff, @don.nie, @Coltron.eth, and @jamesbeck.
- Covered key ENS milestones, DAO highlights, and Ecosystem wins
- 500 live livestream viewers (X + YouTube)
ENS Metamask magic in action.