ENS board

Order is by how soon you can have the name cheaply. Cheap today at the top, then soonest-to-cheap, then lapsed owners, then the far-off watchlist at the bottom.

“Cheap in” and “Cheap from” are the same fact twice, once as a countdown and once as a date you can put in a calendar. All times are New York. Cheap means the temporary auction premium has fallen under $75, which happens 19.64 days into the 21-day decay, about 32.7 hours before it hits zero. That is the window where the name costs a few dollars over base but the crowd waiting for exactly $0 has not shown up yet. Base price on top is $5 a year for 5 letters or more, $160 for 4, $640 for 3.

Two things that cost real money. available() returning true does not mean cheap — everything mid-auction reports available, and lacing.eth reported available at a premium of $81,600,000. And the controller in ENS's own docs is dead: use 0x59E16fcCd424Cc24e280Be16E11Bcd56fb0CE547.

Google figures marked * are real measured google.com counts. The rest are modelled from corpus frequency (R² 0.813, spread about 2.7× either way) and carry a commercial-supply bias. Counts above 1B are unstable to about ±50% between reads. Verify before spending on a 3-letter name.

One visible competitor, 0xcf48a8fa…, holds 656 .eth names and registered 71 in 14 days. They took carbons, neutrons and quasars within three hours of each other. Their book is Chinese lucky-number strings, English plurals, brandable business compounds and Latin — the plural half overlaps you directly. Almost everything they buy is registered for the 28-day minimum, so that batch lapses around 10 September. Churn and flip, not a hold.