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It sounds vaguely like .tel but popular because crypto https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tel

• ChadNauseam 5y ago
  I don't see the relation. ENS is a whole separate name service. .tel is an ICANN tld that I guess is supposed to be used for business cards and stuff. ENS could be used for business cards I guess, but it's not designed with that as the primary purpose.
  • corobo 5y ago
    Apologies it’s been a while since I last thought of .tel, if I remember right if you hit the domain over http it would have a list of records Probably just a rogue thought bumping into a misremember :)
  • Kadin 5y ago
    I think the idea was more than just for display purposes. There was an idea that the telephone-switching address space and public Internet could be combined, because the devices were converging towards each other. So an address in .tel would be a phone number, and also all active telephone numbers in the ISO numbering scheme would be valid addresses under .tel. You'd be able to put in DNS records to forward "friendly" names to phone numbers, and also set SIP endpoints for PSTN numbers. It was never really clear who was going to run all this, i.e. would it be the phone company, or some outfit like Network Solutions / Verisign... and I think that's part of why it never really happened. And phone numbers and DNS remain separate address spaces.