We are pleased to announce the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) has been approved as a Blue Member of the DNS Operations Analysis and Research Center (DNS-OARC).

The approval of our membership by the DNS-OARC board is an important step toward our goal of complementing and improving the existing DNS infrastructure and processes with Ethereum. This is consistent with our commitment to supporting the ICANN approved DNS namespace and the processes for its expansion and is another example of how ENS is taking Ethereum to the rest of the Internet.

DNS-OARC is a leading organization for the research and analysis that keeps the Internet’s Domain Name System we all take for granted running smoothly. Members include leading DNS companies such as Verisign, Google, CentralNic, and many others (the full list is available in the sidebar of their homepage).

“DNS-OARC welcomes ENS into the our community,” Keith Mitchell, Executive Director of DNS-OARC, told us, “and looks forward to sharing knowledge and exploring ways to make traditional DNS and blockchain technologies work together.”

The ENS team looks forward to learning about and contributing to the maintenance and improvement of DNS and engaging with the other members at their next workshop OARC-32 in the new year.