TL;DR
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There’s one thing occurring between the oldsters behind the Ethereum Title Service (ENS) and Unstoppable Domains.
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The conflict got here when Unstoppbale Domains filed a patent that a few of the people behind ENS felt laid authorized declare to improvements they’d made.
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So there’s one thing occurring between the oldsters behind the Ethereum Title Service (ENS) and Unstoppable Domains.
Each promote Ethereum primarily based domains (e.g. coolguy69.eth) – however the people at ENS have been the primary to develop the tech.
The conflict got here when Unstoppbale Domains filed a patent that a few of the people behind ENS felt laid authorized declare to improvements they’d made.
If this have been an in individual forwards and backwards, it’d go one thing like this…
ENS: Hey, that patent you filed appears terrible near know-how that we developed.
Having a patent provides you management, and we do not need this tech managed by anyone firm or entity. We wish it to be open.
UD: Okay, nicely – related or not – we have publicly pledged that we will donate this patent to The Web3 Domain Alliance, which is all about maintaining this sort of know-how open and free to construct upon.
…so we’re good proper?
ENS: If these are your intentions, we’re cool with it…
However at the moment, it is only a public announcement – which ain’t legally binding.
So if you don’t need us to take you to court docket, we will want a legally binding dedication that ensures this patent might be made a public good.
UD: Your proposed resolution doesn’t take note of the truth that we would like there to be a number of Web3 naming techniques.
(Assume: .eth, .crypto, .nft. Similar to there’s .com, .co, .io, and so forth. in Web2)
…and the one method to make sure that future is to have a spot the place everybody (not simply UD and ENS) collaborate. That is what our patent is aiming to do.
That is just about the place we’re as much as as of this writing – we’ll let you understand if/when issues progress any additional.
