[No Auction Required, ENS Applies for .ens Generic Top-Level Domain as Sole Applicant] Odaily Planet Daily News: ENS has announced that it has officially applied to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for the .ens generic top-level domain. ICANN has opened a new round of applications for generic top-level domains (gTLDs), and ENS is the sole applicant for .ens, with no competing applications, thus no auction is required.