Yes, I assumed it was not done by mistake. The funny thing (to me anyway) is that a big part of the culture seems to be how absolute "ownership" is -- at least

Yes, I assumed it was not done by mistake. The funny thing (to me anyway) is that a big part of the culture seems to be how absolute "ownership" is -- at least around NFTs -- and how this is decentralized, but with ENS it's a rental just like a .COM (but with something like 1000% processing fees) and it's more centralized than DNS. I wanted to try out the .ETH name and I'm fine with them doing whatever they want with the contract, I just find it amusing. Unstoppable seems a lot closer to the overall ethos: https://unstoppabledomains.com https://unstoppabledomains.com