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Brantly Millegan Remains a Director of ENS Foundation After Failed Attempt to Boot Him

coindesk.com + 2 more 07 March 2022 07:37, UTC

Brantly Millegan will remain as the director of the Cayman-registered Ethereum Name Service Foundation after a vote to remove him failed.

This drama began in early February after a 2016 tweet surfaced where Millegan expressed views condemning homosexuality, transgenderism, abortion and other issues.
In the end, the results were 43.39% against Millegan’s removal, 37.51% for it, and 19% abstaining.
The $ENS Foundation is the legal representation of the DAO.
$ENS token holders were eligible to vote. Each token held represented one vote.
Nick Johnson, founder and lead developer of $ENS, who fired Millegan from True Names Ltd, a company owned by the foundation to manage the code development, abstained from voting, according to on-chain data.
In the past, Johnson had said he was a supporter of Millegan, tweeting that he had “never seen Brantly treat anyone as different or lesser because of who they are.”
After the vote concluded, Millegan wrote that he believes “$ENS is for everyone” and he looks forward to getting back to work in building $ENS.