Announcement | Now supporting .xyz domains on imToken 2.0

With the latest version of imToken (2.1.4), we add support to .xyz domains. With this you can now send and receive to ENS-enabled domains .eth, .luxe and .xyz.

As stated in our previous blog post about the ENS ecosystem (see below), the current development of blockchain is similar to the development of the early Internet of the 1990s, counter-intuitive wallet addresses made up of a series of alphanumerics (like 0xb022e81cb167bbf9b992d968a2fea7465effa339) makes it hard for users to interact with the wallet addresses, there are rooms for improvement on the user experience front.

The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) was introduced to improve the user experience on this hard-to-read addresses, providing recognizable .eth wallet addresses tied to the users’ wallets, auctioned via ENS DApp. After more than one year of operations, more than 160 thousand .eth domain names were auctioned off. imToken also introduced a native ENS Pro DApp for users to auction and transact with .eth domain names since the beginning.

We have announced our strategic partnership with MMX, the sales and marketing led owner of .LUXE top-level domains. Before the support of .xyz domains, you can already auction and send transactions with .luxe domain using imToken 2.0.

Introducing support for .xyz domains

Having supported .eth addresses for a year now, version 2.1.4 of imToken introduces support for yet another ENS-enabled domain: .xyz.

XYZ and Ethereum have partnered to allow you to pair your .xyz domain with your Ethereum wallet via the main ENS network. This means your .xyz domain can harness the power of the DNS to function as an easily memorable custom identifier for your Ethereum wallet, allowing you to manage your assets while retaining security and anonymity.

If you own a .xyz domain name (purchased through any DNS registrar), you’ll be able to claim the same name in ENS, and use it just like you would any .eth name — associate it with your wallet, use it to name smart contracts, create subdomains, and so forth.

An information page with more detail about how this works and how to use it is available here on the XYZ site.

How can I buy a .xyz domain?

As mentioned above, you can search for any registrar selling .xyz domains. One of them, EasyDNS, has developed an easy, wizard-based process for enabling this on .xyz domains registered with them; for more details read this howto on their site.