This page is a footnote, not the headline.

aDNS names are their own class of name. The product is the bare aDNS form — yoel.normies. You do not need to know anything below to use aDNS.

What happens under the hood

For compatibility with existing resolvers and tooling, aDNS names resolve through an ENS-compatible namespace rooted at adns.eth. The public aDNS form maps to the stored name by appending the apex:

aDNS form:      yoel.normies
under the hood: yoel.normies.adns.eth

Why

• aDNS names are not subnames of a single ENS name in the product sense. They are their own namespace; the .adns.eth rooting is an implementation detail for resolver compatibility.
• The apex adns.eth is controlled by the protocol.
• Integrators who already speak ENS can resolve aDNS names with no special-casing: just use the under-the-hood form.

The apex adns.eth itself is shown only here in the docs and on the chain/about page — never in user flows.