# $ENS Now Available for Claiming — Mirror

<https://ens.mirror.xyz/5cGl-Y37aTxtokdWk21qlULmE1aSM_NuX9fstbOPoWU>

- Host: [ens.mirror.xyz](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/ens.mirror.xyz/)
- Saved: November 11, 2021 (2021-11-12T00:19:03Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/66226dd54ad0/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/66226dd54ad0.json

## What Jamie wrote

Okay, this is seriously one of the coolest things I think I've seen on the web in over two decades.

Imagine if back in the 1990's as the Web was being born, we were able to take the Domain Name System, one of the most critical components of the web, the thing that turns www.thingelstad.com into the numbers your computer needs to find my website, and make it a public good managed in part by the community of the web. Instead, DNS is controlled by a variety of companies that manage it for us. We don't even get much of a vote really. Well, the Ethereum Name Service just flipped itself into a Decentralized Autonomous Organization and granted ENS nameholders governance tokens for 25% of the voting power of the organization. See [$ENS Token Allocation](https://ens.mirror.xyz/-eaqMv7XPikvXhvjbjzzPNLS4wzcQ8vdOgi9eNXeUuY).

This writeup from [NiftyTable on ENS](https://www.niftytable.com/archive/ens/) has some incredible data on this change and the size of ENS already. It is pretty amazing. 🤯

[I’m a member](https://www.thingelstad.com/2021/11/11/im-a-member.html). 🙌

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT203: Weekly Thing #203 / Discord, Family, Names](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/203/), Featured

## Same host

- [POAP x ENS x IYK swag at Devcon 6 by the numbers — ENS](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/43d252cbb648/) (ens.mirror.xyz, October 26, 2022)
- [A Deep Dive into the ENS Name Wrapper — ENS](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/8ccb1a804447/) (ens.mirror.xyz, April 5, 2023)

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