On the Rinkeby, Ropsten, and Gorli test networks, the top-level domain .test is available. It allows you to test your ENS code before deploying to mainnet.

Previously, obtaining these domains has required manually interacting with the registrar contract. As seen in the excellent tutorial by Michal Zaleck, you had to connect to your Ethereum node locally and register it via command line or writing a script.

Not any more!

We recently added a feature to our manager that allows anyone to claim an available .test domain.

One caveat: the registered domain only belongs to the owner for 28 days. Once expired anyone can claim it.

→ ENS Manager