Ethereum name service

[mining1]

What do you guys think of it ? It let's you use an adress like name.eth instead of the standard long hexadecimal adresses. https://ens.domains/

Someone bid 6660ETH for exchange.eth domain. I wonder which exchange did this https://etherscan.io/enslookup?q=exchange.eth

Also http://www.trustnodes.com/2017/05/08/1-million-dollars-bid-ethereum-names-weather-eth-auctions-25000

[CoolnQuiet]

It doesn't work for me as of right now. I dont understand why. web version with metamask is fine tough. I'm using mist (last version). Already registered a name. However, after that it started to freeze when I open ENS dapp in Mist.

[ethersphere]

Think it's a good sign that the ethereum ecosystem is becoming more mature. I think it demonstrates to some extent that people might actually be interested in building services (or at least be willing to make a commitment by paying large sums to secure their address/names) on top of Ethereum rather than just speculating on the currency.

[BTCwriter]

Yes, people using Etherium to hype and scam to each others, like token creation on Etherium platform which worth hundreds of millions on a useless crap, example Gnosis or Aurgur etc. LOL Ripple is much useful because all the banks going to use it to transfers money.

[CoolnQuiet]

someone is willing to pay 18m. for consensys.eth  https://ens.codetract.io/

[FesselSpiel]

I can remember the "old days" of the net, where people like me would register and stockpile domain names. A kind of gold rush like you see in altcoins right now. Actually I once owned zuckerberg.com and .net. Then I saw an email form a guy named Marc who had a strange website for students only called "thefacebook.com" in my spam folder. He wanted to buy these domains because this was his lastname. At that time I was happy to sell it to someone. ...the rest is history... :-(

[MacT]

 entirely not needed and adds nothing new or sought after.

[helixringer]

Seems like a lot of people believe in the ENS. Last time I checked more than 1. Billion Dollars were deposited in order to secure the names. Even secondary marketplaces for the names are opening up: https://ether-domains.com

Definitely feels like the second gold rush after the dotcom boom. 

[digaran]

Who is controlling the domain registration? if it's controlled by some body then it has no value, of course if I had millions of Ξ I'd bid thousands in order to fool people or just to show off. no body is using namecoin even after almost 8 years.
When I bid for a name who am I paying to? yes totally decentralized.