The eth.link saga is over after dismissal.
Ethereum Name Service (ENS) has formally dismissed a lawsuit it filed regarding the domain name eth.link.
Eth.link is used as a resolving service for .eth names. People can type a second level .eth name followed by eth.link to get the name to resolve in their browser.
The person who registered the domain went to prison for helping North Korea evade sanctions and the domain expired while he was in prison.
The domain was registered at Uniregistry, which had an expired domain auction partnership with Dynadot. Dynadot auctioned the domain for $852,000, with Manifold Finance as the winning bidder.
Ethereum Name Service subsequently sued GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) (which owns Uniregistry), Dynadot, and Manifold Finance.
Citing rising litigation costs, ENS asked the ENS DAO to approve a settlement in February. The DAO approved a deal that would reimburse ENS Labs for its legal expenses and pay Manifold Finance $300,000 to walk away with ENS retaining the domain.
The settlement filed with the court today dismisses all parties with prejudice. Manifold was previously dismissed from the litigation for lack of jurisdiction, so the dismissal does not involve it. It’s unclear if ENS ended up settling with Manifold for the $300,000 the DAO agreed to cover. Presumably, GoDaddy and Dynadot requested a resolution with Manifold before agreeing to the dismissal.
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