good afternoon my name is Nick Johnson I
am the team lead of
aetherium name service since we receive
very generous grant funding from
aetherium about six months ago
ENS has turned from a one person's spare
time project into a fully funded team of
nine people and we have been spending
last six months building out the earnest
features and functionality that we think
will make ENS integral to the future of
aetherium n web 3 so today we're going
to go over the the new look what we're
doing about ecosystem support how we've
been integrating with dns and new ENS
management tools and our D on the new
registrar that will replace the current
option system so first of all as you've
probably noticed already we have a new
look a shiny new logo and so forth and
this represents the fact that any sort
of takes the sharp edges off etherium
and we've been rolling this out across
all of our applications so one of the
main efforts that we've been engaging in
in the last six months is integrating
with existing DNS services
eeeyah nice when it was launched hit
only the dot eath top-level domain and
death is exclusive to aetherium into a
genious it works only to resolve
services inside DNS and so on but we
consider it to be a part of the global
route these sort of shared namespace
that all DNS names exist in and we're
conscious that we want to be a good
player that we want to integrate well
with them we don't want to pollute the
namespace and we also want to integrate
with existing systems wherever possible
so although it's initially launched with
teeth we're pleased to say that we've
already launched two new top-level
domains inside ENS dot X Y Z n dot luxe
and these both correspond to those same
top-level domains in the DNS system so
let's have a quick look at how we've
achieved this integration first of all
for dot XYZ into what we're doing is
we're using DNS set DNS SEC is the
Internet
dae-sik as the Internet's system for
securing domain name lookups and it
permits us to actually prove the
ownership of DNS names and the content
of DNS names
so using that a user is able to register
their domain using the regular internet
registrar whatever your caller your
favorite registrar is they enable DNS
sick which depending on your registrar
may just be a one-click operation and
then they add a text record under their
name saying this is the etherium address
I want to be responsible for this name
and then finally they go into our tool
and they submits the proof of it that's
gathered from DNS that proves that they
own that name that is the address they
wanted to be assigned to and that tool
then sends it to a smart contract which
verifies all the cryptographic proofs
and submits it into a nice and from then
they can manage that name inside Enes so
if I own my name die X Y Z I can go
through this process and I can end up
owning my name dot X Y Z inside here
nice and if I go to my favorite wallet
ass I can type my name to X Y Z to see
myself funds and so on and so forth so
this is a permissionless integration it
doesn't require any cooperation or
involvement from registrar's or
registries or I can because it relies
entirely on public infrastructure the
DNS system you can claim your own name
now for dot XYZ via DNS CNS domains and
some registrar's such as easy DNS are
already working to make this easier by
doing most of the work on the backend
for you if you're a developer there are
a couple of client libraries there
available these automate the process of
gathering proofs of DNS compiling them
together into the data that our smart
contract recognizes and submitting it to
it
this isn't restricted just to use with E
and s either if you have an amp that
needs insight into DNS you can use this
you can use it to fetch any data from
DNS that is in DNA second abled and
trustless lis prove its existence inside
theorem unfortunately of course the the
trustless nature of this and the sort of
crypto heavy nature of it means that it
can be a little less user friendly than
it might otherwise be
the other integration have been pursuing
is with dot lux and what we've been
doing here is actually working directly
with the daleks registry and registrar's
and they've been cooperating to
integrate directly with etherium so
rather than sort of doing it through the
the open route via DNS sick and having
to do everything ourselves this involves
the registrar's and the registry
actually working directly with us in
order to support DNS what this means is
that if you register Lux domain with the
supporting registrar you could simply go
to that registrar's interface you can go
to the control panel and you can paste
in the address that you want to be
responsible for it inside etherium and
hit go and that certain just one step
service we think demonstrates the sort
of usability that you can get and the
sort of improvements in in usability by
integrating existing systems with with
web 3 this is dot luxe is available now
for pre-registration and officially
launches on November the 6th and before
we before I continue I should actually
say the integration with DNA SiC that
we've shown with XYZ we will be rolling
out to a number of other top-level
domains basically our goal is to support
any top-level domain that has the
necessary Dionysiac tooling setup for it
and we'll be doing this after we've
finished the new manager and we're
confident with the infrastructure and
the sort of beta period that we're doing
now so and another avenue of research
and development has been the new d3 just
rawr and this is probably what a lot of
you have been waiting to hear about for
the last year and a half
the initial registrar when we launched
it in May 2017 was option based
Stiller's and it uses what's called a
Vickery option the idea is that everyone
bids on the name and then you have a
reveal period people reveal lipids and
the winner is the person who did the
most this system works very well for
allocating new names initially when you
have many competing too many people
competing to by the same name but we've
found that it's less effective at
ongoing registration what we find is
most people most names only get bought
by one person there's the chances of two
people wanting and
name within a few days of each other
quite low so we end up with quite a lot
of option over here for relatively
little return so our goal here is that
we want to migrate to a new system the
new system will be instant buy so
instead of being an option you just buy
the main for a fixed price and it will
be rent based so similar to existing
systems with DNS you register a name and
you pay a yearly fee to rent it before
we launch this we will have a one-off
option for shorter names so presently
all ENS names are at least seven
characters will be auctioning names
shorter than that on a one-off basis for
a year's registration before launch and
then we'll launch the new registrar and
everything will transition to this
yearly rent the early rent will be the
same price for every domain and our goal
is to set it at a price that discourages
sort of mass squatting but makes it
cheap and affordable for people to use
the unis so our target price is more or
less the same as you see with DNS names
in the region about 10 US dollars a year
at present that will be set by us we've
been researching mechanisms to set the
rent price effectively autonomously but
we've been unable to come up with one
that we're confident isn't gamer ball by
people who with sufficient resources to
influence the price in one way or
another counterbalancing that you can
register and renew anytime you want and
for as long as you want so if you're
happy with the rent price 15 dollars a
year and you want your domain to be
stable for a long time you can register
for a century and then you can say the
blockchain ensures that this name will
be owned by this contract for at least
100 years which we think is pretty close
to an ironclad guarantee for things like
package management systems it will also
be built for a common infrastructure
like parent package management systems
in that it will allow people to renew
other domains you can always delete your
domain if you don't want it but you if
their domain is common infrastructure
anyone should be able to sort of react
to ensure a continues operating so
anyone who owns a domain in the existing
model will have two options in the new
registrar the first option is that they
can transfer their existing domain to
the new registrar they have a full year
to do that and when they do the domain
registration get
- a year after our the launch of the new
registrar so you get a year's total
extra registration that costs point zero
one Aoife and the remainder of your
deposit that you paid in the initial
option to register the name gets
returned to you if you don't do that
within a year the name becomes available
again and people can purchase the name
however your deposit will always be
returnable the other option is that at
any time after the launch the new
registrar you can release the name and
get back the entire deposit you paid in
the original option so one of the
biggest things in building ENS into a
universal platform is making sure that
ecosystem support is really good ENS is
not much use to us if it's just a way to
register names and then a way to look at
names and none of the apps support it so
one of our biggest drives in the last
six months has been pushing out more
support for the ecosystem for libraries
and tooling with the NS and we're
pleased to say that ethers jeaious whips
reaper jeaious web 3pi and webster ej
all now have integrated ENS support
meaning that if you use any of these
client libraries in your debt
you no longer need to have a separately
NS library to do name resolution so if
you are using one of these libraries
that's possible your app supports NS
without you even knowing it and in the
case of web 3 so ethers JS for instance
it actually does automatic name
resolution anytime there is an address
field and in the case of some of these
other libraries you still need to use a
separately NS module but it's integrated
that was the library for you we've also
of course been pushing it out to more
wallets and debts and we're very
grateful for the cooperation of people
such as argent portal network get coin
especially have been doing a lot of
integration with us and mellon port and
this is going to be one of our main
efforts going forward is more developer
relations more reaching out to folks
like you to make sure that integrating
NS is the obvious choice finally
outreach such as events like this we
held a second ENS workshop in August in
which we get a lot of feedback and ideas
that have helped us improve the
permanent registrar and other if
we had have onboarding workshops here at
DEFCON there's one today at 5:00 p.m. if
you you just want to sign up for a name
and Thursday at 10:00 a.m. there is a
workshop for anyone building adapt or a
wallet who wants to know how to
integrate again SPC and would love to
see you there
and we've done talks at a wide variety
of events with ENS staff members and if
any of you would have an event that
you'd like to see us at please come talk
to us afterwards we'd love to be there
so next up we have been redesigning the
interface for managing ENS names and
registrations and to demo that I'd like
to invite chief flower the lead of the
ENS project manager project up hi
everyone I'm Jeff Lao and I'm the lead
developer of the nest app I've been
working with ENS since June of 2017
building the original managed app which
following the launch of ENS last year
this was built as a proof of concept for
this new tab but I'm going to show you
right now and it was concentrated on
functionality but with the new funding
we got from the foundation earlier this
year we've managed to hire a UX designer
and a UI designer to help us revamp the
interface so we're we're focusing on it
to be more user friendly and this is
what the revamp I'm going to show you
today is based on so today I'm going to
show you a demo of the new map I'm gonna
show you how to set up your ENS name if
you have one from start to finish and
I'm also going to show you how to add
subdomains
so this is the new app right now so
you're greeted by a large search bar
similar that you see on GoDaddy or any
of the other registrar's and here you
can be nosy and search any units name in
the registry so however the most useful
thing you can do is search for names
that you own and you can set them up for
your own use so I'm gonna do that right
now and I'm gonna search for true names
eath which is the dns name for the
company that develops Enis
so as you can see here I'm gonna show
you there are two stages for setting up
your DNS name so first we need to set up
an ENS resolver for our name and
secondly we need to set up the address
record for that resolver so what is a
resolver and how do we set it up well a
resolver is a smart contract that allows
you to map your DNS name to a record the
most important record that you can set
up is the address so you can resolve
from true named story--the to your
unreadable burial dress so how do we set
up a resolver well the easiest way is to
use the public resolver there is Venus
is deployed a public resolver contract
which is available for everyone to use
and it will handle most of the record
types that 99.9% of users will need if
you have some advanced usage you can
also deploy your own resolver and point
to that instead but we're just going to
use the public resolver so if I click on
the pencil tool it will come up with a
nice input box to type any resolver you
like but we're just going to click on
use public resolver which will
pre-populate this with the public
resolver so I'm gonna click save and run
meta mask and we cheat a little bit here
we're on a private network so this is
gonna confirm immediately and it's going
to yeah I really wish your theorem was
that fast but uh just for the demo today
we're gonna use a private network that's
the resolver set up
that means we're now to add up we are
able to add our own record types we've
got this nice little plus here to add
our own record taking the plus we can
see a drop down menu that will allow us
to choose a record currently we only
have each rest and content but in the
future we'd like to add new add the rest
of the record types that the public
resolved supports so we're going to
click address here and we're going to
copy the owner address which is our own
address so we want to point true names
of each to our own ether dress so I'm
gonna click Save again and confirm and
that's gonna confirm instantly again and
now we've set up our name so that's
actually it that
some how you would set up your earnest
name once you bought it you set up the
resolver you set up the address and now
any ENS any yes enabled app will be able
to resolve true names or ease to 0x9
of' etc so that's the basics now I'm
gonna show you how to set up subdomains
so subdomains are an advanced feature
that allows you to set up more ENS names
under your route name so if I click on
the subdomains tab on this side it's
going to show us what start domains we
have available we don't have any
subdomain in this right now so I'm gonna
set one up so if I click on the button
here you can add any kind of label for
your subdomain so we're just gonna
create a tip jar for true name store
east so any of you kind folks we want to
donate so often a foundation can do so
so I'm gonna save that meta Moss again
superfast etherium we're in subdomain
created and I'm gonna click on this now
to go into our tip jar true names eath
so as you can see here the tip jar
subdomain is just like any other in its
name it has all the functionality of
true name story--the and has the owner
it has the resolver and it also has all
the record fields available to it so I
could do the same thing as we did before
I could set up the puppet resolver save
that confirm it etc and that's all set
up nice and quickly the other thing we
can do is change the owner so your
subdomains don't have to be the same
owner as the root domain and so we can
actually transfer this to say a family
member or maybe for us maybe like a
multi-sig wallet for the true names
don't eat foundation so I'm going to
show you that now I'm just gonna copy a
address I saved earlier might be my own
address and paste that in there click
transfer confirm that transaction as you
can see and that changes the owner
address the one I just pasted so that's
pretty much it for the basics of the
enos manager we also have added in some
new functionality for favoriting so if I
click on this heart button
that will fill it up and I can go to the
favourites panel and that shows you
we've got favoriting abilities to save
the local storage your domain so this
makes it easier for you if you've earned
quite a few domains to to manage them
all separately and I can get rid of that
heart and it will get rid of my favorite
so that's all the functionality for the
new in a snap there's a lot of things
that we want to add to this let me go
back to the presentation so present so
in the future we want to add things like
reverse record support which will bring
up up to feature parity for the old
manager we want to be able to like Nick
said same DNS names via DNS SEC have
that integrated into the DAP auctions
for short names three to six characters
Department of registrar support so the
instant by ian is now which has already
hosted an outtie nest of the mains but
we want to integrate it with the
original app and also advanced features
like name and resolver history and I'm
going to hand it back to Nick to finish
off the rest of the presentation
so finally to wrap up what's next for us
obviously we need our top priority we
want to finish permanent registrar
design and implementation our goal is
still to get this rolled out in May next
year so everyone can transition to a
more permanent model for registration
and so that we can ease the registration
process for new users we want to of
course deploy this and migrate everyone
over we're completing work on the new
management at face that Jeff just showed
us and of course this is the ongoing
outreach our biggest ongoing task is
always going to be making sure that
Ian's asus is widely deployed as
possible it's as useful as possible and
convincing as many of you fine folks as
possible to integrate it into your apps
so that's it for today thank you very
much
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