ENS and owner sues GoDaddy for selling eth.link to Manifold Finance

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According to our source, GoDaddy had reported that the ownership over eth.link domain name expired on Sep 5. But the company transferred it to Dynadot LLC which put the domain for auction.

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eth.link is an important domain name for Ethereum designed by programmer Griffith to link the Web2 domain name system with the Web3 domain name in the Ethereum blockchain.

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