ENS offers a secure and decentralised way to address resources both on and off the blockchain using simple, human-readable names.
Long addresses pruned
ENS eliminates the need to copy – and worse, type – long hexadecimal addresses. With ENS, you’ll be able to send money to your friend at ‘ajinkya007.eth’ instead of ‘0x4cbe58c50480…’, interact with your favorite contract at ‘mycontract.eth’.
Security
ENS is built on smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain, meaning it doesn’t suffer from the insecurity of the DNS system. You can be confident names you enter work the way their owner intended.
Truly Distributed
ENS operates in a distributed fashion for both its infrastructure and governance. Anyone can register a .eth domain name for themselves by participating in an auction process, mediated by the blockchain.
How to get your own ENS :
ens.domains, gitcoin.co
Gitcoin
While exploring projects on github, I came across the project Gitcoin.
Github Project: https://github.com/gitcoinco
Project Website: https://gitcoin.co/
Project Summary: The Mission statement is to grow open source.
The idea of the project is to solve the incentive problems for oopen source developers. OPen sourcce developers create a lot of intellectual and economic value and are never properly incentivized for the same. This project tries to solve the problem by providing a decentralized platform where project repo mainteners can post in their funded issues and open source developers can work on the same.
BitcoinTalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2206663
Gitcoin provides the feature to create your own ENS. Have a look at their blog on the same.
Blog: https://medium.com/gitcoin/personalize-your-own-gitcoin-ens-name-f8e5d7438e3e