ENS: your .eth name, explained from Chile

What ENS is

ENS is a naming system that runs on Ethereum. Just as a web domain saves you from memorizing a server's IP address, an ENS name saves you from copying a 42-character address by hand. Besides the name, you can store records: addresses on other networks, an avatar, your website and your social accounts.

Unlike a traditional domain, the name lives in your wallet. You control it, not a registrar, and you can use it in every app and explorer that reads ENS.

What it costs

Since ENSv2, the price depends on the length of the name and on how many years you pay for in a single transaction: the more years, the lower the price per year.

Prices are per year. They are paid in digital dollars —USDC or DAI— plus the network fee (gas), which is still paid in ETH. The ENS App accepts USDC on Ethereum and on layer-2 networks. Before ENSv2, a name with 5 or more characters cost US$5 per year and was paid in ETH.

If a name expires, there is a 28-day grace period to renew it; version 1 names that haven't been migrated keep 90 days. During the grace period anyone can renew it, but nobody else can register it. After that it becomes available at a temporary premium that starts at about US$100 million and halves every day for 21 days.

What it is useful for today

• Getting paid at a name. Since September 2024, PayPal's and Venmo's crypto sending features accept ENS names, in the countries where those services offer crypto.
• Identifying yourself. Your name and avatar show up in compatible wallets and apps instead of an address.
• Organizing a team or a brand. With subnames — payments.yourbrand.eth, ana.yourbrand.eth — each person or contract gets its own name.
• Naming contracts. A deployed contract can show up with a name instead of a hexadecimal string.

What changed with ENSv2

• It's on mainnet. ENSv2 has been live on Ethereum since October 27, 2026, with a new ENS App and ENS Explorer. New names are registered in ENSv2.
• Migrating is optional, but there's no going back. Version 1 names keep working and there's no deadline to migrate them. If a name is in its grace period, it has to be renewed first.
• Permissions by role. What the Name Wrapper did with fuses is now part of the ENS core, with a system of roles: you can give another account, for example, only the permission to edit records or to create subnames.
• .ens at ICANN. In November 2025, ENS announced it would apply for .ens as a brand top-level domain in ICANN's 2026 new gTLD round. According to ENS, the earliest it could be activated is 2028.

ethereumchile.eth subnames for builders

ethereumchile.eth is an ENS name managed by Enschile. It issues subnames to projects building on Ethereum from Chile: yourproject.ethereumchile.eth.

• Your contract stops being a hex string. Your project's wallet or contract shows up with a readable name in apps that read ENS.
• Your date is on-chain. The issuance is recorded on Ethereum: whoever asks first is listed first.
• Fully open. It comes without restrictions: you can edit its records, use it as your primary name and create your own subnames.
• No expiry of its own. It lives as long as the root name, which is paid through 2037.

How to request it

1. Pick the subname. One per project; third-party brands are not issued.
2. Give the wallet that will receive it. Your public address, from your own wallet and not an exchange: a subname sent to an exchange deposit address is lost.
3. Send both. On Telegram to @enschile. We tell you how to pay and reply with the transaction link.

It costs USD 10 and spots are limited. You can also buy it yourself at app.namespace.ninja/ethereumchile.eth.

Everything about ethereumchile.eth, with an FAQ: its page.