Depending on the amount of data (and your willingness to pay to have it on the blockchain) you can put it on the blockchain directly just fine. Some of these "art" NFTs can perfectly be simple base64 encoded PNGs or SVGs and wouldn't cost too much to have them stored directly.
But forget about this case... even if "you are not storing the data directly with ENS". So what?! Do I get to host my website with my DNS server? Do I get free email service with my MX records?
The whole thing I was talking about with ENS is that it is a decentralized way to get an identity online, not to have a free website. I am failing to see your point.
> So what? Do I get to host my website with my DNS server? I am failing to see your point.
You responded to someone who was talking about “certified original one of a kind URL pointing to the image they host”. In that case, you are dependent on them continuing to exist or exiting gracefully (i.e. do their contracts allow you to change the target?).
If you mirror it in time, you can of course pay to update it to point somewhere else but it again highlights that all of this infrastructure is very expensively duplicating an existing decentralized system but worse performance and reliability than the web.
No. I responded that NFTs are not just about "digital art in specific URLs". DId you read the comment I linked to before or did you just want to "well, actually" me and argue a strawman?
There was no "described scenario". OP was asking whether "the NFT market rely on trusting that the company doesn't cease to exist" and my response is that an ENS domain or a unlock-protocol lock are NFTs with utility on their own and that you never get to lose because of something that happens off-chain.
It doesn't matter whether the data is stored on a blockchain or elsewhere. Storing data is costly and storing it on a blockchain is even more costly. Someone has to pay for the cost or it won't be stored.
Yes, and again... so what? My argument from the beginning (and from the comment I linked) is that NFTs are not about storing data. The NFT "market" is not just about storing JPEGs at specific urls.
Using Bored Apes (or any "digital art" project) as an argument against the "whole" of NFT is just a strawman. That is my point.
But forget about this case... even if "you are not storing the data directly with ENS". So what?! Do I get to host my website with my DNS server? Do I get free email service with my MX records?
The whole thing I was talking about with ENS is that it is a decentralized way to get an identity online, not to have a free website. I am failing to see your point.