Domain registrar company EnCirca has announced that it is accepting pre-registration applications for the Ethereum website extension, ".
EnCirca also said that they were the first registrar approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to accept applications for Ethereum domain websites.
According to its website, ICANN is a not-for-profit public-benefit group that serves to coordinate and develop policy for Internet naming conventions.
According to the press release, EnCirca was motivated to start including blockchain-related extensions in its registrar due to the lack of regulation for these extension names.
ORG" are regulated, while blockchain domain names are not.
One reported upshot of this is that there are no safeguards in place to prevent cyber-squatting for brand names, which are made available through trademark protection.
For shorter names with a 3-6 character length, EnCircle says it will grant priority to pre-existing URLs registered under a different domain, such as ".
According to the announcement, the applicant who can show the longest continuous use of such a name will receive the corresponding ".
As previously reported by Cointelegraph, a mysterious individual filed to trademark the name "Samsung Coin" with the Korean Intellectual Property Office.
The individual filed under the name Kim Nam-jin on July 10, while also attempting to trademark ThinQ Wallet - a name that LG Electronics had already applied for on July 2.
Domain Registrar EnCirca Accepting Applications for Ethereum Addresses
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