The Two Biggest Web3 Domain Name Providers Are Currently in a Fist Fight…

TL;DR

• There’s one thing occurring between the oldsters behind the Ethereum Identify Service (ENS) and Unstoppable Domains.

• The conflict got here when Unstoppbale Domains filed a patent that among the of us behind ENS felt laid authorized declare to improvements they’d made.

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So there’s one thing occurring between the oldsters behind the Ethereum Identify Service (ENS) and Unstoppable Domains.

Each promote Ethereum based mostly domains (e.g. coolguy69.eth) – however the of us at ENS have been the primary to develop the tech.

The conflict got here when Unstoppbale Domains filed a patent that among the of us behind ENS felt laid authorized declare to improvements they’d made.

If this have been an in individual backwards and forwards, it’d go one thing like this…

ENS: Hey, that patent you filed appears terrible near know-how that we developed.

Having a patent offers you management, and we do not need this tech managed by anybody firm or entity. We wish it to be open.

UD: Okay, effectively – comparable or not – we have publicly pledged that we’ll donate this patent to The Web3 Domain Alliance, which is all about retaining this type of know-how open and free to construct upon.

…so we’re good proper?

ENS: If these are your intentions, we’re cool with it…

However at the moment, it is only a public announcement – which ain’t legally binding.

So if you do not need us to take you to courtroom, we’ll want a legally binding dedication that ensures this patent will probably be made a public good.

UD: Your proposed answer doesn’t consider the truth that we would like there to be a number of Web3 naming techniques.

(Suppose: .eth, .crypto, .nft. Identical to there’s .com, .co, .io, and many others. in Web2)

…and the one manner to make sure that future is to have a spot the place everybody (not simply UD and ENS) collaborate. That is what our patent is aiming to do.

That is just about the place we’re as much as as of this writing – we’ll let you already know if/when issues progress any additional.