ENS founder Nick Johnson stated that he is "prepared to actively defend" against a intellectual property dispute with competitor Unstoppable Domains. Domain services aim to simplify the use of blockchain by providing human-readable domain names. Johnson stated that he only wants to defend ENS's work and the principle of open-source code, not patents. He hopes that future internet infrastructure will be open and "non-profit public products, not operated by for-profit companies."

Nick Johnson, founder and lead developer of Ethereum Name Service (ENS), has written an open letter on X (formerly Twitter) urging Unstoppable Domains to drop a patent or face a lawsuit. Unstoppable Domains was granted a patent in January that claims to use blockchain technology to determine domains. Johnson claims that the patent is based on innovations developed by ENS and contains no novel innovations of its own. Johnson has requested that Unstoppable Domains put legal weight behind its PR commitment to pledge its patent to the Web3 Domain Alliance.

Nick Johnson, the founder of Ethereum Name Service (ENS), criticized Unstoppable Domains on social media. Johnson not only criticized Unstoppable Domains for lacking legal support or the binding force behind its Web3 Domain Alliance organization, but also accused Unstoppable of applying for a patent for an innovation of ENS.

Web3 domain company Unstoppable Domains has announced that it now supports .com domains, and users can purchase ".com" addresses through its website. It is reported that ".com" is currently the most popular Web2 top-level domain (TLD) type, with a registration volume of over 157 million. The announcement states that Unstoppable Domains is the first company in the industry to provide both traditional .com domains and third-party Web3 domains, and the company plans to enable all available features of Web3 domains to work with users' .com domains.