Hi guys, I wasn’t sure where is the best place to comment about EP4.9 Voting Reports, so I decided to do it here. I wanted to comment to try and clarify some things specifically for us (Namespace).
Comment for @AvsA’s report:
2-3 teams are building similar stuff, but there’s only maybe about 50% overlap in our features. However, our approach to product building, go-to-market strategy, etc. is very different, and we still have a lot of features and innovations of our own.
As far as our product suite goes, and what makes us different than others, is some stuff we built like:
- Subname price customization based on length
- Different whitelisting options for minting
- Deadline for commencing minting in the future (for auctions)
- Search and Registration Services for both Names and Subnames
- Token-gated minting for communities, so that only certain NFT holders can mint a subname.
- Entire front-end to facilitate all these features so anyone can use them regardless of their tech or ens knowledge.
- Widget that can be added to any website or blog (wordpress, wix, webflow, html website) with one line of code and allows anyone to sell ENS names and subnames directly from their website or blog. Currently live on Goerli, and the next step is to build it as a Wordpress plugin so it can be installed directly from the Wordpress marketplace so it can be installed even more easily.
I recorded a quick video about our entire Dapp and what we built so far, you can check it at the bottom of this post.
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Comment for @matoken.eth’s report:
It seems like I failed to communicate what Namespace does and/or plans to do.
We were given a “no” on the following:
- L2 and offchain subname
- .eth registration and referral
L2s and offchain Subnames
We are a few months away from finishing a white-label solution for one wallet provider that plans on integrating ENS through Namespace’s API and wants to issue Subnames on L2 + have optional Account Abstraction implementation for different purposes, primarily for sponsored transactions. We are already building this and will be ready in Q1. After it’s ready, it will be available for everyone to use and implement using our documentation.
For Offchain Subnames, our basic implementation is already done. We haven’t built the front end yet and thus refrained from launching it. That will be up and running before the year ends most likely.
.eth Registration and referral
You can register .eth name on our website even right now. I believe that still works on our website (on mainnet) even though we discontinued some functionality while preparing for the official v2 launch. And not only that, you can register any ‘word’ from any listed 2nd-level Name that has that ‘word’ available as a Subname. Either for free or for a price. It depends on how the ENS parent name had set it up.
I also think our Widget plays very well into the narrative of Growth Hacking Referrals. Hopefully, by the time referrals are ready and we implement them, we will have already integrated the Namespace Widget with a lot of Websites and Blogs for which we can then just switch on the referral fee and allow them to make money when people register ENS names from their own websites and blogs.
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I apologize if I wasn’t as clear in communicating the value proposition and the entire product suite behind Namespace. And thank you for writing your explanations and allowing me an opportunity to comment. I hope I was able to explain some stuff more clearly and I’m always happy to talk more if anyone wants to dive deeper.
I look forward to our Twitter Space on Monday. 
Here’s a quick Loom demo walking through some stuff we built.