Ethereum Name Service Team Asks DAO to Switch On ENSv2 and Freeze New.eth Sign-Ups on v1

What happened

Ethereum Name Service Team Asks DAO to Switch On ENSv2 and Freeze New .eth Sign-Ups on v1, according to Unchained. Under the executable posted to the ENS forum, .eth sign-ups would pause for what Labs expects to be a few hours before reopening on ENSv2, and current names keep working with no action needed. ENS Labs has asked the ENS DAO to activate ENSv2 on Ethereum mainnet, a step that would freeze new .eth registrations on the original v1 registrar and move them to the new system.

ENS founder Nick Johnson, posting as nick.eth, published the executable proposal on the ENS governance forum on Oct. It bundles 15 calls from the DAO timelock into a single atomic transaction.

Those calls pull all five controllers now authorized on the v1 BaseRegistrar and add back just two: ETHRenewerV1 , which handles renewals for names already reserved on v2, and a Graveyard contract that can claim names left expired past grace. Ownership of the registrar then passes to ETHRenewerV1, which, according to the post, can neither register new names nor add controllers.