If you recently bought a [name].crypto or [name].agent domain name from a third party naming service, this is important to know: These domain extensions (and many others that sound fun/cool) are not anchored to the global DNS root- meaning no one actually controls or guarantees them! ICANN (the body that governs real internet domains) could assign .agent to a completely different registry tomorrow. This means that now two systems claim to have the same domain string, and your wallet and a browser would resolve it differently. Ironically, this actually makes things MORE dangerous since someone could lose funds sending to a name that resolves to two different places depending on context. This is called 'name collision', and avoiding name collision is how the internet can operate functionally in the first place. Always check the IANA's root zone database (link in second tweet) before you purchase a domain name. If the TLD isn't listed there, it's not anchored to the global DNS root, meaning that you don't actually own what you think you own since its not 'real' internet infrastructure.

ens.eth
@ensdomains
03-05
Launching a new .whatever namespace is easy. Building naming infrastructure that works across wallets, apps, exchanges, and the web is much harder.
Why ENS chose to extend the existing internet namespace instead of inventing new roots ⤵️
https://ens.domains/blog/post/ens-was-here-first…
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