<i>ENS is built on smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain, meaning it doesn't suffer from the insecurity of the DNS system. You can be confident names you enter work the way their owner intended.</i><p>Hahaa.. Because smart contracts <i>have no flaws</i> and its not like the arbitrators don't have m-of-n override to force function things out.<p>Competing claims of security. DNSSEC exists.<p>If they are truly DOMAIN names, then there are scoping consequences which vest from the underlying concept of a domain, and what it means to be inside another domain. If they're just names on a chain, that don't have scope, thats different of course. I guess I'm just whining that DNS here means something, and its like the surplus -gate in bushgate back-applied to watergate-gate...