--- title: "ENS Vision is closing: where to buy and sell ENS names next" description: "ENS Vision closes on 31 August 2026. Your names stay in your wallet: here is how to check listing coverage, relist only the gaps, buy safely, and verify the market data." published: "2026-08-28" author: "ENS.Tools" canonical: "https://ens.tools/blog/ens-vision-closing-where-to-buy-sell-ens-names" readingMinutes: 7 tag: "Marketplace" --- # ENS Vision is closing: where to buy and sell ENS names next ENS Vision closes on 31 August 2026. Your names stay in your wallet: here is how to check listing coverage, relist only the gaps, buy safely, and verify the market data. **ENS Vision has announced that it will close on 31 August 2026.** Your ENS names do not close with it: ownership remains onchain and the names stay in your wallet. What changes is the storefront that helped buyers discover listings and sellers create or surface orders. The quickest next step is simple. Buyers can [browse the ENS marketplace](/trade?campaign=vision-exit&utm_source=organic&utm_medium=shutdown-guide). Sellers should [connect the owner wallet and check listing coverage](/trade/sell?campaign=vision-exit&utm_source=organic&utm_medium=shutdown-guide) before signing anything new. There is no token migration and no reason to transfer a name to another service. ## If you listed ENS names on Vision 1. **Connect the wallet that owns the names.** The coverage check only reads the portfolio and live marketplace state. 2. **Wait for the listing audit.** It checks which names still have a discoverable order across the currently available destinations. 3. **Select “List coverage gaps”.** This avoids replacing healthy orders or signing duplicates for names that are already visible. 4. **Review approvals and prices.** Listing signatures are gasless. A missing operator approval may require an onchain transaction and gas. 5. **Sign and verify.** The result screen keeps successful destinations intact and identifies anything that still needs attention. A listing and an ENS name are different things. The name is the onchain asset you control; a Seaport listing is a signed instruction that a buyer may fill while it remains valid. That is why the recovery flow starts with coverage instead of asking you to “move” a name. ## If you want to buy an ENS name Start with the live order book, filter by price, length, collection, character type, or source, then open the name. Check the current owner, listing expiry, signed order, total checkout cost, and recent receipt-backed activity before asking your wallet to settle. A valid purchase settles atomically through Seaport: payment and control of the ENS name move in the same transaction. ENS.Tools does not escrow the name or hold the buyer’s funds. ## What Vision got right Vision’s final public dashboards make several useful product lessons concrete. The interface puts current totals first, explains each metric in plain language, lets a reader change the time window, and links interesting activity back to a name, wallet, or transaction. Its leaderboards turn otherwise abstract protocol activity into something people can follow and share. Its comparison dashboard also makes competitive position legible at a glance. We are borrowing those principles, not copying every chart. Public readers now get an [ENS Market Observatory](/trade/insights) with live, source-labelled metrics, transaction links, scope notes, and the same dataset in JSON or CSV. Internally, the admin Growth view follows the buyer and seller funnels, campaign outcomes, direct listing supply, and platform-attributed fills. Competitive user-migration charts are only useful when the underlying cross-site identity and attribution can actually be reproduced, so we do not present speculative comparisons as fact. ## Indexed market activity is not platform revenue ENS.Tools indexes ecosystem activity so buyers and sellers can read the market. That does not mean every observed sale happened through ENS.Tools. The public Observatory calls those rows**indexed sales**. Internally, a fill is counted as platform-attributed only when the marketplace revenue ledger records a positive ENS.Tools fee. Keeping those numbers separate prevents an ecosystem metric from turning into a revenue claim. ## Frequently asked questions ### When is ENS Vision closing? ENS Vision announced on 28 August 2026 that it will close on 31 August 2026. See the [original announcement on X](https://x.com/ensvision/status/2093246786722726130). ### Do I need to transfer my ENS names? No. Your names remain in your wallet. Only marketplace discovery and listing coverage need attention. ### Will an old Vision listing keep working? It depends on the signed order, its expiry, its approvals, and whether another active indexer can still discover it. Use the coverage check instead of assuming that every historical order is either live or dead. ### How much does ENS.Tools charge? A native ENS.Tools marketplace purchase adds a 2% fee to the buyer’s checkout; the seller receives the listed price. Externally sourced orders can contain their own signed fee terms, which are shown before settlement. ### Where can I verify the market numbers? Open the [Observatory](/trade/insights) for current metrics and scope, or download the public [JSON](/api/market/observatory) and [CSV](/api/market/observatory.csv) datasets. ## Continue trading [Browse names for sale](/trade?campaign=vision-exit&utm_source=organic&utm_medium=shutdown-guide), [recover seller coverage](/trade/sell?campaign=vision-exit&utm_source=organic&utm_medium=shutdown-guide), or [read the live market](/trade/insights).