The domain of the eth.link address, which provides an important data storage and monitoring service on the Ethereum Name Services (ENS) network, expired and the address was sold fraudulently.
One of the leading developers of Ethereum and also a close friend of Vitalik Buterin Virgil Griffith go to North Korea For promoting Ethereum by USA 63 months in prison had been sentenced. Critical to the Ethereum Name Services community eth.link The control of the domain name belonged to him and he could not renew the domain in any way because he was in prison. It is known that the ENS community uses the eth.link address for the control and verification of all Ethereum Name Services domain names, and it is thought that losing this domain name will bring some serious problems.
GoDaddy The expiration date of this address registered on the domain provider 26 Julyended in . According to a statement from GoDaddy, the public sale of this domain name, which is important for community members, September 5 would be held on. But things didn’t go as expected and the eth.link address September 3 It was offered for sale in a surprising way. The domain name wasn’t even up for sale through GoDaddy’s own auction system. Instead, due to a pre-existing agreement with the domain name registrar Dynadot was put up for auction.
The ENS community and Griffith stated that GoDaddy, which previously announced that the domain name will expire on September 5, went on sale on September 3, two days before it waited for the domain name to return to the registration pool. Aforementioned lawsuit for the annulment of the fraudulent sale The opening parties made the following statements in their statements:
GoDaddy made the sale of the eth.link domain name on September 3, 2022, without any response on information and reliability. The domain name was acquired by Dynadot without returning to the registration pool.
domain name 852 thousand dollars Another domain registrar site, Dynadot, has not yet responded to the objections.