The ENS DAO has launched an ENSv2 activation proposal, currently receiving approximately 619,000 affirmative votes, which has not yet reached the 1 million vote quorum.

On October 20 that the proposal page on the ENS DAO governance platform Tally/Blockful shows the "Activate ENSv2" proposal submitted by nick.eth is currently under voting and will expire on October 25 at 13:32. Currently, there are approximately 619,000 yes votes (100%), 25 no votes, 0 abstentions, with quorum progress at 619.42K / 1M.

Upon approval and execution, the DAO will freeze new .eth registrations on ENSv1 via a single atomic transaction comprising 15 calls, and transfer ownership of the v1 BaseRegistrar to the renewal-only ETHRenewerV1 contract. Simultaneously, the proposal will route .eth resolvers to the ENSV2Resolver and direct the Universal Resolver proxy to an intermediate proxy managed by the security committee.

Following this, ENS Labs will complete the final pre-migration synchronization and open the v2 ETHRegistrar for registration. The Labs will also transition to v2 resolution and transfer all v2 administrative privileges it holds to the DAO timelock. The interval between proposal execution and the v2 launch is expected to span several hours. During this window, no new names can be registered on either v1 or v2, though other name operations will proceed as usual and renewals remain possible.