I think this has been answered somewhere in the internet once before, but I can't find the answer anymore. If I own DOMAIN.ETH ENS and I create Subdomain.DOMAIN.ETH and transfer the ownership of subdomain to someone else and resolve the address to someone else's address, will I still be able to modify it's settings as the owner of DOMAIN.ETH?
1 Answer
Technically no, but practically yes.
Technically
While another account is the owner of a subdomain, you cannot directly manage it. For example, you cannot:
- set a new resolver in ENS
- set the owner of a sub-sub domain
- interact with the public/default resolver on behalf of the subdomain
Practically
At any time, you can reclaim ownership of your subdomain by using:
ens.setSubnodeOwner(
namehash('domain.eth'),
web3.sha3('subdomain'),
MY_ACCOUNT,
{from: MY_ACCOUNT}
);
Then you can make whatever administrative changes you want. At which point, you can choose to revert ownership back to the previous owner with another setSubnodeOwner call.
