Resolve .eth domain names

[danfinlay]

The idea of hijacking the URL bar is pretty appealing.

There's talk of adding support for this to the WebExtension API.

If this was added, we'd need to do a few things:

• Add a static site format to ENS
• Check when a new website .ens resolves to a static site format.
• Redirect to that site instead.

[danfinlay]

Worth noting that ipfs is having a similar discussion.

[ramvi]

How is ens-chrome-extension solving this? Worth taking a look at?

They're using a thin client instead of a third party node. Shouldn't change how URL bar is hijacked.

[danfinlay]

Looks like ens-chrome-extension does this by running a light client written in GO as a local process, and allowing the extension to access that.

If MetaMask wanted to provide this, we'd probably default to whatever provider the user has configured (with Infura as a fallback), and would need to consider what resource types we were able to support.

If we had an IPFS client built in, we could resolve IPFS hosted pages. If Swarm gets exposed over libp2p or webRTC, we should be able to resolve to Swarm pages.

[danfinlay]

We may also be able to cooperate with portal.network on integrating their solution, which I believe is an infura-like hosted resolver, but could probably be pointed at a user's own custom server, too.

[danfinlay]

The Gnosis team would like to see this issue's priority increase, because they have some urgent needs for it.

[Arachnid]

Please bear in mind that .eth won't be the only TLD, once we enable DNS integration. Ideally the protocol should be used to distinguish whether to resolve a standard website or some other service.

[schemata-nick]

Would be super excited for this one, especially in light of the recent DNS hack

[26000]

Seems like this has been implemented in the latest version. But when i looked at Portal Network's website, it said something about its proprietary services, not a word about how to make my domain resolvable to my own IPFS website hash. Are there any docs? If not, they IMO should be added to @MetaMask/faq. I don't think we want yet another integration with a proprietary vendor-locked service, do we?

The canonical way is adding a Swarm hash as content to your ENS domain resolver, but this doesn't seem to use Swarm. Even theswarm.eth doesn't load, so...

UPD: none of Portal Network websites load for me.

[bdresser]

@26000 some folks from Portal.network built the feature, so the splash page is sort of a shoutout. We're loading ENS data from the blockchain via Infura and IPFS content via Infura as well.

Read more on how the feature is implemented in MetaMask here: https://consensys.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012782931.

And you can find some simple guides on how to host your page on IPFS here or here.

[26000]

@bdresser

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But the first link is what i needed, was looking for a hash converter. Thanks a lot!

[bdresser]

re-published the support article, you should be able to access now.

closing this, released in 4.9.0!