ENS v2 predicts $0.50 in gas for domain registration on mainnet

Ethereum Name Service (ENS) developers are signaling dramatically lower gas costs for domain registration on Ethereum mainnet with the upcoming ENS v2 architecture. In a recent ENS blog update on the v2 roadmap, the team said ENS v2 will be deployed exclusively on Ethereum L1 and highlighted that, thanks to recent Ethereum scaling improvements and gas limit increases, ENS registration gas costs have already fallen by around 99% over the past year, from roughly $5 in gas per registration to under $0.05 on average. Based on these trends and the new single-step registration flow in ENS v2, community commentators are now circulating estimates that mainnet registrations could typically cost on the order of $0.50 in gas even while remaining on L1. The ENS v2 decision is notable because the project has formally abandoned its earlier "Namechain" L2 design and instead committed to leveraging Ethereum’s native scaling, including the gas limit increase from 30M to 60M in 2025. ENS v2 focuses on UX improvements such as single-step registration, the ability to pay for names with stablecoins from any chain, and a redesigned registry that should reduce the number of separate transactions required, all of which further compress the gas overhead per registration. For users and integrators, this means ENS can keep its security assumptions anchored directly to Ethereum mainnet while still achieving near-mass-market pricing for .eth names, changing the historical perception that ENS on L1 is prohibitively expensive. More broadly, the projected ~$0.50 gas cost for a mainnet registration illustrates how Ethereum throughput upgrades and more efficient contract patterns can materially shift on-chain business models. ENS registrations that once required multiple transactions and could cost tens of dollars in busy periods are now closer to web2-like price points even without migrating to an L2. This has implications for adoption by wallets, dapps, and consumer-facing services that rely on human-readable naming, and it underscores a broader narrative that Ethereum L1 can support higher-volume consumer use cases when paired with protocol-level scaling and careful contract optimization.

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