Ethereum Name Service Team Asks DAO to Switch On ENSv2 and Freeze New .eth Sign-Ups on v1

ENS Labs has asked the ENS DAO to activate ENSv2 on Ethereum mainnet, a step that would freeze new .eth registrations on the original v1 registrar and move them to the new system. ENS founder Nick Johnson, posting as nick.eth, published the executable proposal on the ENS governance forum on Oct. 11. It bundles 15 calls from the DAO timelock into a single atomic transaction. Those calls pull all five controllers now authorized on the v1 BaseRegistrar and add back just two: ETHRenewerV1 , which handles renewals for names already reserved on v2, and a Graveyard contract that can claim…