ENS domain names have been fueling the latest NFT craze, with people buying, selling, and even forming exclusive clubs around them. In this article, we will explore the most popular ENS NFTs categorized by ENS Vision, a handy tool that tracks ENS domain names.
English Verbs Category:
This category consists of randomly minted verbs with varying lengths. Like most ENS domain names, shorter words have the potential of fetching higher prices. For instance, art.eth last sold for around 30 Ethereum, same as gas.eth. The most expensive verb domain name to date is trade.eth, which was sold for around 50 Ethereum.
Three-Letter First Name Category:
As expected, popular names are fetching crazy amounts. For instance, gym.eth was last sold for 25 Ethereum. For Minion fans, gru.eth is going for about 3.5 Ethereum right now. However, sam.eth takes the cake in this category, with the last purchase for 100 Ethereum.
100K Club:
This category consists of domain names of the first 100,000 digits from 00000 to 99999. After investors and collectors went crazy over four-digit domain names, the 100K Club was formed. The most expensive domain in this category is 8888.eth, which was last sold for around 6.88 Ethereum.
Pre-Punk Club:
Most names in this category were minted before 2017, before the CryptoPunks collection. There are about 55,000 minted domain names in this category, with the most expensive one being paradigm.eth, fetching around a whopping 420 Ethereum in its last sale.
Arabic 999 Club:
This category contains Arabic numerals from 000 to 999. The most expensive domain name in this category is the Arabic numeral zero zero zero, which went for around 100 Ethereum in its last purchase.
Single Emoji Category:
With over 1,000 emojis in this category, several of them have been sold for over a thousand dollars. The most expensive single emoji, the polar bear, was last sold for 3.45 Ethereum.
Triple Emoji Category:
This category contains three emojis per domain name. The highest sale made in this category is the dollar sign domain name, which fetched over 15 Ethereum or 22,000 US dollars.
BNS Club:
Launched in May 2017, BNS wasn't until 2022 that it really caught on. One of the catalysts was the 10K Club. On April 26, 2022, users began frantically buying numbered ENS domains from 0000 to 9999 without any centralized coordination. At the time of writing, the 10K Club domain names lead in both the 24-hour traded volume and the total traded volume. 88888.eth features as the most expensive domain name in the collection, last sold for 38 Ethereum.
Conclusion:
ENS domain names have become popular among users as a form of digital identity and a status symbol. This has led to the decentralized domain service earning over 52 million dollars in revenue this year, according to Dune Analytics. However, domain squatting is a thing in ENS, where someone buys a domain to block other people from buying it, with the goal of reselling it for profit.
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