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Users will be able to use a unique name for integralo with multiple platforms of cryptocurrencies.In the core network is an initial version of the application ENS Manager to test.Ethereum Name Service (ENS), the service names created with contracts smart network Ethereum, announced the launch of a new feature and multi-currency that facilitates the association with 15 platforms and purses of cryptocurrencies.Using a publishing Medium, the editor of ENS, Brantly Millegan, formalized the launch of the service that will allow users to use a unique name that will be able to integrate with multiple applications cryptocurrencies.De this way, the alphanumeric addresses long and uncomfortable, not only be easily readable for humans, but also can be integrated with multiple platforms of cryptocurrencies. For example, in the case that Bob wishes to send funds to Alice, you can do so through its name, ENS alice.mywallet.eth that shall have incorporated any of the purses that are compatible. In such a way that another feature of ENS will be using new top-level domains, or TLD (top level domain) – native, as well as “.eth” represents Ethereum, to be able to withstand other useful things.Well-known platforms such as Opera Touch, Pandax, Cipher, Myetherwallet, Metamask and Argent, already have support for ENS. Others that are implementing the support are in the purse Bitcoin.com, Coinbase, Imtoken, D, Cent, Trustwallet, Portis, Haven, Squarelink and Coin Request.In the publication it is reported that, previously, ENS were compatible with 12 purses only for the addresses of Ethereum, but thanks to this new feature the number has doubled, to reach a total of 24 platforms.DCent, the first platform that included support for ENS, published a video with a demonstration of the new feature, which was presented at the last edition of the Devcon5, held during the first days of October in Osaka, Japan.Recently, we launched an initial version of the official app ENS Manager to test the function, only to addresses ETH, BTC, LTC, and ETC. The idea is to expand the interface capability to other cryptocurrencies, as bitcoin cash (BCH), in the next few weeks, as detailed in the note.
“The Foundation Ethereum is the owner of the DNS name “ethereum.org”; with our system, they could even have a registration ENS for “ethereum.org” (not ethereum.eth, which is a name separate). In this way, the Foundation Ethereum could use “ethereum.org” for both your regular website (using DNS) to receive payments in cryptocurrencies (using NSS).Brantly Millegan, representative of ENS.
Millegan added that this already works for the names .XYZ, and in a special way for the names in .LUXE, .KRED and .ART, and soon you will implement the functionality in all the TLD of the domain name system on the Internet known as DNS (Domain Name System), enabled, for security extensions, or DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions).The team of ENS believes that the project is key to creating a powerful web decentralized. Millegan emphasized that ENS and the web decentralized IPFS (stands for File System Interplanetary), are accessible in Opera, and the extension Metamask.Last August, ENS announced that it added support for directions .onion, used by the search engine Tor, focused on private browsing on the Internet. The implementation will allow the service ENS to convert the addresses .onion in names readable by humans.
In a previous publication, the responsible of Ethereum Name Service, Brantly Millegan, answered in advance of a number of questions that either could be done by knowing the addition of support for 15 platforms of cryptocurrencies, although always the created addresses will have the domain .eth.In the publication asks what it means for a system of names based on chains of blocks to be a good citizen in the global namespace? And what is the best approach for the users and the long-term success of names based on chains of blocks?The answer is that it is a matter of social responsibility. As explained, so that there is a space of names agreed at the global level, it needs a close coordination between the representatives and stakeholders around the world. For that reason there is Icann, which is the Corporation for assigned Names and Internet Numbers, a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to coordinate the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet.The Icann community, which represents the whole world, has developed rules and procedures for the creation of new top-level domains or TLDS. Its objectives are to ensure that there is only one owner of a particular TLD on the Internet, that everyone has the opportunity to apply for a TLD and a TLD has the best chance of ending up in the hands of the organization that makes the most sense. These coordination mechanisms are critical to maintain, as says the motto of Icann, “one world, one Internet”, explains the note.The team of ENS believes that the creation of TLDS additional outside of the Icann process and the sale of these names to the clients not only is detrimental to the long-term success of the names based on chains of blocks, but it is also harmful for the users.
“The success of our experiment with .ETH has demonstrated the value of the technology. In the future, we want to be as responsible as possible. This includes possibly the search register .ETH through the normal process of ICANN, always and when the opportunity to protect our users”.Brantly Millegan, representative of ENS.
The publication comes to the conclusion that the infrastructure-based names in the blockchain has a bright future in the ecosystem of the cryptocurrencies, provided that this is done in a responsible way, and adds that Ethereum Name Service is the next evolution in how to manage names on the Internet, one that can evolve with the ecosystem and the community current Internet.