The above chart shows the registrations per day over time.

At a glance, there seems to be nothing suspicious up until October ends...

Let's ZOOM IN.

• Everything seems to be perfectly normal up until 31st-1st November. 31st October was the snapshot date for the airdrop.

• Now, Nov 1st, 2nd & 3rd have a relative uptick in the number of registrations. This was very likely due to ENS publicly announcing the formation of the DAO and all related tweets/blogs/forum posts on the topic. Along with media coverage. The posts started around afternoon/evening 1st November.

• Things cool off for a bit up till the actual airdrop/launch of the ENS DAO token. Why the absurd uptick in the number of registrations? It's difficult to explain but here are some thoughts!

• The Airdrop launch would have attracted enormous media/public attention. As such, lots of new users would have flocked to get their very first ENS domain.

• People who received the airdrop would have wanted to support the ENS' efforts further and likely registered more domains as a show of goodwill.

• With all the media attention and coverage, the amount of 'flippers' would have increased too. Flippers here are people who block a large number of domains that might become more valuable later as the names represent a celebrity/ a famous brand/icon etc.

Conclusion

The airdrop seems to have been as fair as possible with regards to insider trading/info. No such outliers given Crypto/Defi standards!