ENS names are issued on Ethereum and move between owners on-chain. A sale either happened or it did not, and anyone can check which.
An ENS name is held at an Ethereum address, and moving it is a signed transaction on a public chain. Nobody has to be trusted for the handover to have happened.
paradigm.eth took $1.51 million in October 2021 — 420 ETH. 000.eth took about $320,000 in July 2022. Both are dated bull-market prints, and the average reported domain sale in the first half of 2026 was a little over $1,100.
Around 80% of every ENS name then in existence was registered during 2022. The short ones went first, because the short ones always go first.
There are 46,656 possible three-character names and 2,176,782,336 possible six-character ones. That is 36 to the power of the length, and it is the whole reason short names cost what they cost.
Yes. An ENS name is held at an Ethereum address and transfers on-chain, so a sale is completed by a signed transaction that anyone can verify afterwards. This is the main thing that separates ENS from newer namespaces, where no transfer mechanism has been published at all.
paradigm.eth, which sold for 420 ETH — about $1.51 million — in October 2021. 000.eth followed at 300 ETH, roughly $320,000, in July 2022. Both prices are reported rather than officially confirmed, and both were set at the peak of a bull market.
Most names change hands for four figures or less. Across the whole domain market there were about 128,300 reported sales in the first half of 2026 totalling roughly $146 million, an average a little over $1,100. The million-dollar names are real and they are also rare.
Length first — there are only 46,656 possible three-character names and billions of six-character ones. After that: whether the name is a real word, whether it names a category rather than a thing, and whether anyone would think to type it without being told.
Make an offer on the listing and negotiate with the person holding the name. HandleX does not take custody of the name or the money — the transfer happens on Ethereum between the two of you, and we are not an escrow agent.
No. HandleX is an independent marketplace, operated by Omucloud, and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the Ethereum Name Service. We do not issue, register or control a single name.