Ethereum Name Service Says Regained Control of 'eth.link' Domain Name

'eth.link' Domain Name Issue

GoDaddy, a web domain registrar, was sued by the organization behind ENS for selling the domain name to a third party. GoDaddy was charged with violating a domain name registration agreement in the complaint. True Names' action claims that GoDaddy incorrectly declared the plaintiff's domain registration for eth. link to be expired and sold to a third party. In this case, the court approved True Names' request for a temporary restraining order. The eth.link domain must be returned to True Names under the court's ruling. The domain name was first purchased from GoDaddy by Dynadot, which later transferred it to DeFi aggregator Manifold Finance. Dynadot and Manifold are both mentioned in the complaint.

Ethereum Name Service Regained Control

According to the court's decision, "Defendants shall immediately transfer ownership in the Domain back to Plaintiffs to the extent ownership interest in the Domain has been sold or transferred away from Plaintiffs as the registrants." Users can continue utilizing the eth.link without interruption, according to the founder of ENS. To access their "dot eth" (.eth) ENS address as a standard browser website, ENS owners use eth.link as a gateway. In order to open the link as a regular web page in a web browser, they add a "dot link" (.link) to their—eth ENS on a browser tab. Johnson addressed this, saying: "The eth.link domain has been returned to us fully pending the outcome of the court case. Should the case not be pursued, the return would effectively be permanent."