Imagine addressing someone by their phone number rather than their name. That's what the internet would be like without naming services. Naming services make the internet more user-friendly and accessible by providing a convenient way to translate human-readable names into machine-readable identifiers. Without a naming service, navigating the internet would become much more difficult. You'd have to remember and manually enter long strings of numbers (like IP addresses) instead of using simple and memorable names.

DNS has been a fundamental part of the internet infrastructure for decades and is widely used and accepted. ENS, on the other hand, is relatively newer and specific to the Ethereum ecosystem. The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) and the traditional Domain Name System (DNS) are both systems that facilitate the mapping of human-readable names to machine-readable IP addresses. In this blog, let's explore the concepts of ENS (Ethereum Name Service) and DNS (Domain Name System) and discuss whether ENS could potentially replace DNS in the future.

If you ever find yourself intrigued, curious, or perhaps a bit overwhelmed by terms like Ethereum and ENS, you're in the right place. Ethereum Name Service (ENS) is a decentralized and open-source technology built on the Ethereum blockchain. Much like the Domain Name System (DNS) governs the traditional internet, the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) plays a parallel role in simplifying interactions within the Ethereum blockchain. To understand its impact, let’s take a look at how ENS works.