{"id":1250,"date":"2021-12-25T04:18:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T04:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/i\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T06:10:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T11:10:32","slug":"how-why-to-buy-a-web3-username-with-ens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/how-why-to-buy-a-web3-username-with-ens\/","title":{"rendered":"How & Why to Buy a Web3 Username with $ENS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Everyone on Twitter is changing their usernames to username.eth. So, after a while, I started to wonder if I should claim my name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

web3 is all the buzz! So, I bought my web3 username via $ENS (Ethereum Name Service<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The web3 username can host a website, store multiple wallet addresses, receive tokens, NFTS, or other cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a part of the new web that will become, and all the cool kids are jumping on the bandwagon even if it doesn’t. I always claim my username on new social networks even if I am not using it. I did it on TikTok and other apps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ENS Website for Web3 Names, Websites, More<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The process is pretty straightforward. It’s about four steps, including buying the Ethereum needed to fund the purchase. I used Coinbase via the Coinbase wallet to buy $119 in Ethereum. That is roughly .027 at the time of this post (Ethereum is hovering around $4,000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next step is to open the app via the Coinbase wallet. Past the website URL into the Coinbase Wallet address (https:\/\/app.ens.domains\/<\/a>). Next, you’ll connect the wallet you have to the $ENS service.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From there, its all straightforward. You will select the name you want and start the registering process. It’s outlined in this screenshot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Process for registering a name via $ENS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Ethereum Name cost $27.20 for 5 years (0.0068 ETH). The bulk of the cost was miner fees. The miner fee on the name was $51.27 (0.0126 ETH). There was another miner fee to check if the name was available, which was $10.08 (0.00249 ETH).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right now, I don’t have a use for the name. I bought leonhitchens.eth. I plan on purchasing my children’s names on the $ENS blockchain, ensuring they have their names. My thinking is the same with buying their domain name. Saving their username when the future comes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you bought your ETH web3 name yet? If anyone needs any help, please tweet me @leonhitchens<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone on Twitter is changing their usernames to username.eth. So, after a while, I started to wonder if I should claim my name. web3 is all the buzz! So, I bought my web3 username via $ENS (Ethereum Name Service). The web3 username can host a website, store multiple wallet addresses, receive tokens, NFTS, or other…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-post"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"Personal Post"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/photo-1622102699291-b881675c58fc-1024x681.jpg",1024,681,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Leon Hitchens","author_link":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/author\/leonleonhitchens-com\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"Personal Post","slug":"personal-post","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":83,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":83,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Personal Post","category_nicename":"personal-post","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/photo-1622102699291-b881675c58fc.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}