Week 8 — the end of the soft launch! Let’s see how we did:

394,281 auctions started

97,063 auctions finalised

11,314 names (12%) configured with resolvers

195,259 bids placed

179,503 bids revealed

10,817 unique bidders

3,166,895 total ether in bids

161,125 ether locked in names

Largest bid: 201,709 ether, on an unknown name !

! Largest winning price: 20,103 ether, on darkmarket.eth

Most bids: 88 bids, on internet.eth

As an ICANN TLD, we’d now be 33rd, between .blog and .work!

Gas usage for ENS has dropped to about 12% in the last few days, likely due to the end of the soft launch period.

Bidding

Bidding at different price levels was fairly constant throughout the launch. The chart below shows number of bids in each price group throughout the launch.

Adoption and ecosystem