ENS name submission form
Complete this form if you would like the ENS HQ DAO to consider adopting your ENS domain name. If accepted, the DAO will pay the renewal fees and attempt to sell it at the best available price when the market conditions are most favorable.
If your name is chosen and we successfully sell it,
you will receive 25% of the total sales price.
Please read the FAQs section below for more details.
At this time, it is best for you only to list the three best names you want to submit. We will leave a box at the bottom for more if you insist, but we will not look as closely at those.
We are only accepting 5+ character names at this point. The renewal costs for 3 and 4-character domains are far too high to be financially viable in this environment.
We are also NOT accepting corporate names. That includes corporate derivates. If that's the obvious use case, we will not take it. Please do not submit any corporate names.
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What's going on here? What's the point of this DAO?
ENS HQ DAO is comprised of a small group of serious, long-term believers who are willing to invest their personal funds into ENS domains and the bright future of the ENS space.
The economy is fickle and it’s possible that ENS may not going mainstream for a few more years.
The DAO realizes that there are thousands of ENS holders who bought too many domains during the bull run of 2022 and are now realizing that they either cannot or do not want to
renew all of them. These holders likely still see the long-term upside of these ENS names, but don’t want to continue paying renewal fees and waiting for the right time to sell.
As in any situation, the best solution has a win-win outcome.
The DAO was created as a means to facilitate saving money for individuals’ while allowing them to participate in the profit when their ENS name(s) are sold.
What are the specifics that both parties need to do?
Current holder: Submit names for consideration. If the DAO chooses one of your names, you will need to send it to the DAOs wallet. That's all you're required to do.
DAO: We will review all submitted names and pick the ones we believe are worth spending the money to renew. Once you send it to us, we will renew it. We will then add your contact info and name submitted to our Google Form, as well as give you view access to it. We will also give you a link for a POAP proving that the DAO has accepted one of your names. When we are able to sell one of your domains, we will then verify with you via email or Twitter DM what your wallet is that you'd like us to send the 25% to.
What does the DAO offer to people who transfer their ENS name(s)?
As previously stated, the DAO will be responsible for paying all renewal fees on the name. We are able to provide exposure to a larger audience of potential buyers. We will market the name utilizing our social media, newsletter, website, and other channels. We live in this space all day every day and we have the experience required to obtain the highest and best price for these names. We know the market, pricing, and other aspects of the sale process that you may not be familiar with. We also have valuable insights on market trends and domain name valuation.
Can I set a minimum for my name to be sold for?
No. Once you give it to us, we will decide for how long to renew and for how much to sell it for. We will obviously try to get as much as possible, as we stand to gain 75%, but we may take a deal smaller than you would like. And that's just how it may go.
Where will you store the domains?
They will be kept on a Ledger. It will not be inside the DAO wallet due to difficulties of having to vote and pay gas for any name you want to sell. This would be impractical. We will share the wallet address though for where they are kept, so you can see yours there, or any others we have.
How do I know you're not going to screw me? Couldn't this all be done on a smart contract?
The short answer; we probably could if we were bad people. Even if it was done via a smart contract. But luckily for you, DAO leadership is completely doxxed and has everything to lose by trying to steal from you. We've all built up a following and reputation based on being genuine real people wanting to help those in the space and push ENS forward. If we steal from you, we'd be throwing all of that in the trash. To just save 25% of a sale that we just made a bunch of money on already.
We advise everyone to stay vigilant, please feel free to ask questions and watch our wallet. And call us out if we steal from you or anyone. If we do that, we deserve to have our reputations destroyed.
How long do you promise you'll renew it for?
Only one year for sure. We'll likely do more, but no promises. And we do not guarantee that we'll keep renewing it. The market may change in the future, and we may decide to stop renewing it and let it go.
Why don't you want my names? They're awesome!!
While you technically would be giving us the names at no cost, there is still a large cost of renewals for each name we accept, between $20-50 each depending on how it's renewed and what the gas price is at the time.
Therefore, we are still quite picky on what names we will accept. We likely will be accepting less than 5% of what is submitted, possibly even 1% or lower. Us not accepting it doesn't mean it's terrible or that we're trying to screw you, it just means we don't think it is the best use of our funds in comparison to other names that have been submitted.
Can I join the DAO on the investor side?
Email TJ at
[email protected] to see if it's possible.
