Ethereum Name Service ENS
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CM Profile: Ethereum Name Service
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about ENS, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Selling $100,000 on Kraken's order book lost 33.95%, on 4 November 2026.
- Its price, recorded by us every day since 9 August 2026.
- Written, with sources
Read from our own records when this page was made. It describes what we know, and is not a view on whether to hold ENS. How each part is worked out
What changed
Week to 4 NovemberNothing we measure moved much this week: exchange depth on Coinbase, exchange depth on Kraken, trading volume, reported supply and price are all within their usual range.
From our own measurements only, each against the month before. We do not say why a price moves. How this is worked out · Every coin this week
What it actually costs to sell ENS
Selling $100,000 of ENS into each exchange’s resting bids, measured against the mid price:
| Exchange | Lost | Got back | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kraken ENS/USD | 33.9% | $66,051 | 2026-11-04 |
| Coinbase ENS/USD | the book could not absorb it | 2026-11-04 | |
Exchange figures need an account there (and KYC, a permitted country, the tokens already deposited), are before trading fees, and are never averaged with the on-chain figure. Binance is not included: it refuses requests from the region our servers are in. How this is measured →
Watch this number instead of remembering it. A free account keeps ENS on a list, records where it stood the day you added it, and emails you if selling it on these exchanges gets materially harder — one message, not a series. The measurement itself stays public; the account is for being told when it moves without you looking.
What Ethereum Name Service is
Ethereum Name Service (ENS) is a distributed, open, and extensible naming system built on the Ethereum blockchain. It maps human-readable names such as "alice.eth" to machine-readable identifiers: Ethereum addresses, other cryptocurrency addresses, content hashes, and metadata.
ENS works much like the Internet's DNS, using dot-separated hierarchical domains, but its architecture follows from Ethereum's own capabilities and constraints. Top-level domains like ".eth" and ".test" are owned by smart contracts called registrars, which set the rules for allocating subdomains; anyone following those rules can obtain a domain. Ownership of any domain carries the right to configure its subdomains — Alice, owning "alice.eth", can create and configure "pay.alice.eth" herself. ENS also supports reverse resolution, linking metadata back to an address, and can import DNS names a user already owns. It is deployed on the Ethereum main network and several test networks, with client libraries such as ensjs detecting which deployment to use automatically.
ENS is a naming layer, not a wallet, an exchange, or a yield-bearing asset: it resolves identifiers, it does not hold or move funds on its own. CoinGecko classifies it across several categories at once — NFT, Ethereum ecosystem, decentralized identifier, name service, governance — which reflects a protocol used for more than one purpose rather than a single clean function; a name registration, a governance token, and an NFT-style ownership record are not the same claim, and which one matters depends on what you're actually holding. It is deployed on a single chain, Ethereum, so it inherits that chain's costs, congestion, and governance rather than operating independently of it. Nothing in the source describes revenue accrual, a supply schedule, or a founding date, and none is assumed here.
What Ethereum Name Service can do
Selling $100,000 on Kraken lost 33.9% against the mid price, before trading fees. A smaller sale may lose less. Check your own amount →
Our own measurement · measured 4 November 2026
ENS does not run applications. It is the token of the ENS DAO, which governs the ENS naming protocol and its treasury: holders vote, or hand their vote to a delegate.
Source: ENS docs: the ENS DAO · checked 2 October 2026
What a coin can do is not a reason to buy it or to sell it. Each answer names its source and the day we read it; where we could not source one, the row is left out. How these are written · Every coin we have written up
Where ENS lives
On Ethereum, Base and BNB Chain, GoPlus's analysis of each contract is read weekly: whether it has a function to block addresses or pause transfers, and whether an owner holds it. That is GoPlus's reading, not ours. Where a token exists on several chains, one copy's settings say nothing about the original coin.
Always verify a contract address against the project's own site before sending anything. Addresses are shown as published by CoinGecko, not as an endorsement — and identical-looking tokens on other chains are the most common way people lose money here.
Price change
Ethereum Name Service data synced 4m ago from CoinGecko. Figures shown in USD. This page is market information, not financial advice — and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell ENS.