Welcome to ENS’s documentation!¶
- Introduction
- Quickstart
- User Guide
- Implementer’s Guide
- Deploying ENS
- Hosting a DNS domain on ENS
- FAQ
- Why are names registered as hashes?
- How do the DApp and the twitter bot know what names people are auctioning?
- What is the disguise amount / extra amount?
- Which wallets and DApps support ENS so far?
- Why does it say my name isn’t available yet?
- How is the start time for each name determined?
- Why is my reveal transaction failing?
- I bid on an auction and didn’t win; why don’t I see the refund in my transaction list?
- I bid on one name, but Etherscan shows me as bidding on other name(s)! Why?
- Once I own a name, can I create my own subdomains?
- Can I change the address my name points to after I’ve bought it?
- How much do I have to deposit if I’m the only bidder?
- Can I register a TLD of my own in the ENS?
- Instead of burning funds in the auction for bidding costs and penalties, shouldn’t they be donated to the Ethereum Foundation?
- Who will own the ENS rootnode? What powers does that grant them?
- What about foreign characters? What about upper case letters? Is any unicode character valid?
- Nameprep isn’t enforced in the ENS system, is this a security/spoofing/phishing concern?
- How was the minimum character length of 7 chosen?
- What values will the permanent registrar try to optimize for?
- What kinds of behaviours are likely to result in losing ownership of a name?
- Can the bids be revealed during the auction period?
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