Thanks for the proposal! Throwing in my thoughts here, I don’t think the DAO should create/fund an official marketplace. ENS names are not just any other NFTs to be traded, they are a foundational layer for decentralized, censorship-resistant, universal, human-readable data storage and referencing on the new internet.
We should be funding initiatives that make it easier for people to deploy .eth
decentralized websites, for new apps to easily integrate snappy ENS resolution all over their interfaces, etc. Funding a set of components that makes it easier for others to build niche ENS marketplaces is something I’d be behind too.
We also need to start changing UX to treat subdomains as first class citizens, as that is likely the real way people will get their desired name, not shelling out ETH on secondary marketplaces for the “.eth” name.
I wouldn’t Metaphor’s votes on an official marketplace created/run by the DAO. We need to get web3 off this constant speculation-as-product train, not exacerbate it.