“How to claim your DNS domain on ENS – by Nick Johnson
[…] Forthcoming support for claiming DNS domains on the Ethereum Name Service (ENS). This will make it possible to import nearly any internet domain name into ENS, and interact with it just as you would a .eth domain. Soon, you will be able to tell people “you can pay me ether at myname.com”.
Right now, this is only deployed for one internet TLD — .xyz — on the Ethereum Ropsten test network. Support on the Ethereum mainnet, and on more internet TLDs, is coming soon. Once everything is in place, we expect to be able to support the vast majority of internet TLDs — about 96% of them.
Since this is a brand new feature, the process right now is manual and a bit involved. Claiming your ENS domain is a four step process:
- Set up DNSSEC signing for your domain.
- Add a TXT record specifying your Ethereum address to your DNS domain.
- Prove the contents of this TXT record to the DNSSEC oracle.
- Call the DNS Registrar for .xyz to claim ownership of your domain in ENS.
We’ll walk through these in order….