# The ENS Boom - Metaversal

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- Saved: June 2, 2022 (2022-06-02T22:58:34Z)
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- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/8e982d33b453.json

## What Jamie wrote

The [Ethereum Name Service](https://ens.domains) has broken out as the best solution for friendly names, like thingelstad.eth, to map to Ethereum addresses. This is a really big deal and making this easy is even more important than Domain Name Service that powers website addresses turning into IP addresses. Why? Because ENS names can be used as identity in addition to other things. I’m incredibly impressed with the service. I also love that it is leading the way on how to run a great DAO. It is modeling how web3 can be truly different.

> +300k of the +1.12M ENS registrations to date have occurred since the start of May 2022

This is amazing growth. The [ENS names I have registered](https://rainbow.me/0x2BdA946a7740b1dDB0fd5C226819170c4DD15720?family=ens): thingelstad.eth, thinglestad.eth, jamiethingelstad.eth, things4good.eth, thingsforgood.eth, magicpines.eth, knoxave.eth, nightofcrypto.eth, rwbookclub.eth, roadsignmath.eth, weeklything.eth, 0xjjt.eth, web3msp.eth.

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT222: Weekly Thing #222 / Smalltalk, Friendships, Automata](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/222/), Notable

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