ENS names
Every handle proved in libID is also an ENS name. A user can put
octocat.github.handles.link in their profile, and anyone can paste it into a
wallet that supports ENS to send them funds. The sender does not need to know
about libID.
Nobody registers these names. They exist as soon as the handle is proved, and
they point wherever IdentityRegistry says the handle points.
Status
Section titled “Status”No handles.link name resolves publicly yet. This section describes names
as the resolver and gateway on main produce them.
| Where | State |
|---|---|
| ENS on Ethereum mainnet | handles.link is not registered yet |
| ENS on Sepolia | registered, with a test resolver whose gateway is not public |
| Names for Eden | cannot work: Eden’s chain id is too large for an ENS coin type |
Name shape
Section titled “Name shape”<handle>.<platform>.handles.link<handle>.<platform>.<chain>.handles.linkThe platform is github, x or google. Some examples:
| Account | ENS name |
|---|---|
GitHub octocat | octocat.github.handles.link |
X @some_handle | some-handle.x.handles.link |
Gmail alice.smith@gmail.com | alice.smith.google.handles.link |
Names are always lowercase.
On X, each _ becomes -, because X handles cannot contain -.
For Gmail, the part before @ becomes the name, and gmail.com is left out.
A Google Workspace address keeps its domain after an _at label:
alice@company.com becomes alice._at.company.com.google.handles.link. An
address with _ or + in it has no ENS name.
Which chain
Section titled “Which chain”A handle can be proved on several chains, and each chain has its own
IdentityRegistry. The name gives the address on the chain the sender asks
about, and no address on a chain where the handle has no binding.
This only protects the sender if the wallet asks about the chain it will send on. Wallets that follow ENSIP-11 do, MetaMask among them. A client that asks without naming a chain gets the answer for Ethereum mainnet. If it then sends on another chain, the funds go to the Ethereum holder’s address on that chain, who may be a different person or nobody.
Add a chain label to make a name work on one chain only:
octocat.github.base.handles.linkThis name gives an address only when the sender asks for Base.
What resolves
Section titled “What resolves”Only addresses. Text records and avatars come back empty, and an address
has no reverse name. To show a handle for an address, use
publishedHandleOf. To list every
handle a wallet has, use identitiesOf.