[Temp Check] l2.eth to Enable Chain-Specific Addresses

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@nick.eth

What exactly is the bad precedent it sets?

Interfering with the free market in the allocation of .eth names.

@nick.eth

The DAO exists to make ENS as ubiquitous and useful as possible, not to maximize registration revenue.

I didn’t say the goal was to maximize revenue. But as @lightwalker.eth said here, the revenue is still an important metric to track in order for the DAO to have the financial resources to support all kind of projects to further the adoption of ENS.

@lightwalker.eth

DAO revenues need more attention. For example, please see the latest quarterly financial report from Limes. This reflects an ENS DAO revenue from from Q1 2024 to Q1 2025 dropping from $8.1m to $4.9m. This drop is highly concerning and we should use opportunities like this to support stabilizing DAO revenues.

Also, increasing revenue was the motivation of the new pricing research piece by @danch.quixote. Why are you replying to me as if I said that we need to maximize revenue?

@danch.quixote

Motivation

Domain prices were set 8 years ago and have not changed since then. During this time, the US dollar has inflated by 30%, and the industry has grown tenfold.

Recently, funding for Labs and SPP has been expanded. There are also governance token distribution programs, regular grants are issued, and new organizations are emerging that are ready to contribute to the development of ENS.

Therefore, it seems necessary to increase ENS revenue from registrations in order to maintain the ability to continuously improve the product. At the same time, it is extremely important to keep the price within the limits that would satisfy users, so as not to jeopardize scalability and the social purpose.

Under the guidance of Labs and MG Stewards, I analyzed risks and developed pricing strategies aimed at increasing domain revenue and average registration duration without significantly reducing the number of registrations.

@nick.eth

These are all longer and less memorable.

I think that slightly longer and slightly less memorable is an acceptable tradeoff. (l2s.eth for example)

@nick.eth

There’s nothing stopping you or anyone else discussing this on Twitter. I’m not sure what it is that you think needs to be done that isn’t.

A tweet from @ensdomains would go a long way. Both informing the community about this discussion and allowing people to express their opinion.