Holder Commitment | ENSWhois Analyses

How many years has each .eth name actually been locked in for, across its full lifecycle?

What this tells you:

Premium-tier conviction - do 3/4 character holders sit in deeper commitment bins than long-name holders?
1-year default? - at renewal time, what fraction renew for 1-year vs commit to multiple years
Distribution shape - is commitment concentrated in a few high-conviction holders (heavy P99/max), or spread evenly (P50 close to mean)?

Distribution of total committed years per label

For each length bucket, what fraction of labels accumulated each amount of total commitment - counting both the initial registration term and every renewal extension. A name registered for 10 years up front and a name registered for 1 year then renewed 9 times for 1 year each both land in the "10+" bucket.

Per-bucket commitment stats

Mean is sensitive to a few mega renewers. P50 (median) is the more honest "typical holder" number - if mean is much higher than P50, commitment is concentrated in the tail.

Renewal-event duration picks

Registration duration picks over time

Length	Labels	<1 yrs	1-3 yrs	3-5 yrs	5-10 yrs	10+ yrs
3 chars	50,052	74.9%	14.7%	6.8%	3.5%	0.2%
4 chars	113,533	66.7%	15.2%	14.0%	3.7%	0.3%
5 chars	480,618	44.9%	29.8%	15.4%	8.0%	1.9%
6–9 chars	1,572,233	45.5%	27.6%	15.2%	9.4%	2.3%
10+ chars	1,177,927	43.4%	29.4%	16.2%	8.9%	2.1%

Length	Labels	Total years	Mean	P50	P75	P90	P99	Max
3 chars	50,052	52,967	1.1	0.3	1.0	3.2	7.0	30.1
4 chars	113,533	166,969	1.5	1.0	2.0	4.0	8.0	104.0
5 chars	480,618	1,282,845	2.7	2.0	3.0	5.0	14.1	210.0
6–9 chars	1,572,233	4,615,684	2.9	2.0	4.0	6.0	19.0	6943.6
10+ chars	1,177,927	3,543,620	3.0	2.0	4.0	6.0	17.0	4999.9

Length	Renewal events	1y	2y	3-5y	5-10y	10y+
3 chars	73,028	97.5%	1.6%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%
4 chars	185,951	96.3%	2.4%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%
5 chars	239,173	79.3%	10.9%	7.9%	1.5%	0.4%
6–9 chars	640,141	76.5%	12.0%	9.0%	2.0%	0.5%
10+ chars	389,487	75.6%	12.6%	9.4%	2.0%	0.4%

What duration did people pick when they registered a new name? 1-year is often chosend by default; longer up-front commitments cluster in specific eras.

Renewal duration picks over time

What duration did people pick when they renewed? Reveals shifts in renewal behaviour.

Methodology

Per-event duration. For an initial registration: expiry timestamp minus the registration's block timestamp - the term length the registrant paid for up front. For a renewal: the new expiry timestamp minus the prior expiry timestamp for that same label - how much the renewal extended things by.
Per-label total committed years = sum of all the label's registration and renewal durations. A 10-year up-front registration with no renewals contributes 10 years (just the initial term); a 1-year registration with 5 one-year renewals contributes 6 years.
If a name lapses and someone else re-registers it, each registration's term is counted independently. The lapse gap between the old expiry and the new registration is excluded - it doesn't count toward anyone's commitment.
Monthly charts use coarser duration bins (<1y, 1y, 1-3y, 3-5y, 5y+) than the snapshot pick distribution above (which uses 1y / 2y / 3-5y / 5-10y / 10y+) — the coarser bins are easier to scan over many months. Both views agree on what counts as a 1-year pick (within 0.05y of exactly 1 year).