Nick Johnson (software engineer)


Nick Johnson is the creator and lead developer of the Ethereum Name Service, an alternative to the Domain Name System that runs on the Ethereum blockchain.
In 1997 when he was 14 years old, he was interviewed by Reuters about a software program he wrote to help fix the Y2K bug.
In 2016, he started working for the Ethereum Foundation. In April of that year, he proposed a specification for ENS, which launched on May 4th, 2017. In May 2018, he received a $1 million grant from the Ethereum Foundation to form an organization to continue ENS development. He left the Ethereum Foundation and established the non-profit organization True Names LTD to manage the project.