On Property rights and threat models for ENS

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I think that .eth cannot even be changed by the root, that’s what @James and @nick.eth said in this thread: [EP1] [Social] Proposal: Transfer ENS Treasury and Contract Ownership

Importantly, control over the ENS root will remain with the ENS root multisig for now. Control over the root allows for the creation and replacement of ENS top-level domains (TLDs) other than .eth (.eth is locked and cannot be changed by the root).

[EP1] [Social] Proposal: Transfer ENS Treasury and Contract Ownership

It’s more because the .eth TLD is “locked” - it can’t be changed by anyone any longer - while the same is not true for the other TLDs. They’re not; presently only .eth 2LDs are 721 NFTs. We’re working on a name wrapper contract that would let you wrap any name at any level into an 1155 NFT, though. That’s really up to the DAO and the keyholders. Personally I’d like to see the DAO demonstrate a track record of sensible governance before asking the keyholders to hand over the most easily abus…