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Ethereum Identify Service is ready to help an internet area referred to as .field that may be routed on net browsers, identical to any typical web area.
The .field identify, or Prime-Degree Area, originates from a venture named My.Field. In accordance with Nick Johnson, the founder and lead developer of ENS, it will likely be the primary blockchain-based web identify service to be rolled out for Ethereum customers and enabled by the ENS protocol. Notably, My.Field will enable domains for use for each crypto and web providers, similar to e mail.
“We’re delighted to have .field because the pioneer of blockchain-native DNS-routable TLD enabled by ENS. These bridges between Web2 and Web3 are very important to deliver decentralized use circumstances to a broader viewers,” Johnson stated in an announcement shared with The Block. “By constructing on ENS, it’s a part of the general purpose of constructing decentralized naming a easy, usable customary.”
Registrations and transfers of the .field area can be carried out on the Ethereum blockchain. The possession of the related NFT will embody each the Area Identify System and My.Field ENS-based names.
The My.Field venture is ready to go dwell in September.
What’s totally different about .field domains?
ENS at the moment operates the .eth identify service for Ethereum customers, providing an simply memorizable various to lengthy and complicated Ethereum crypto addresses. In contrast to .eth, which doesn’t work together with the web’s default naming protocol, DNS, the .field area can be accessible on all net browsers by way of ENS. This signifies a vital integration of ENS and DNS protocols below the venture.
The crew at My.Field defined that the venture will be capable of use Ethereum names and standard net names concurrently by tokenizing a DNS area with every naming registration and by having a crypto counterpart.
“We have now a mechanism to tokenize a DNS area. Consider the whole lot you realize about .eth, then add that you just additionally get to set your DNS data (by way of the identical dApp), and you should utilize it for web sites and e mail,” Josh Brandley, founding father of My.Field, informed The Block. Moreover, it’s deployed on an Ethereum Layer 2, so gasoline charges can be minimal, Brandley added.
Nevertheless, Johnson highlighted potential challenges regarding censorship resistance. He said that, in contrast to .eth, the .field identify wouldn’t have the identical resistance degree. As per ICANN’s TLD insurance policies, .field names should adhere to sure laws — which means the DNS data might be seized below specified and uncommon circumstances.
