EnCirca
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| Type: | Privately Held, |
| Industry: | Registry |
| Founded: | 2001 |
| Founder(s): | Thomas Barrett |
| Headquarters: | 400 West Cummings Park Suite 1725-307, Woburn MA 01801 |
| Country: | USA |
| Employees: | 11-50 |
| Website: | http://www.encirca.com |
| LinkedIn: | http://www.linkedin.com/company/encirca |
| Twitter: |  @http://twitter.com/encirca
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| Key People | |
| Thomas Barrett, President Kate Kalmakis Moran, Media Contact | |
Encirca is a domain name registrar and trademark protection service company founded in 2001. The company is accredited by ICANN. Thomas Barrett is the Founder and President of the company.[1]
The company offers all available gTLDs, including new extensions such as .pro, .travel, & .jobs as well as majority of the ccTLDs.[2] It also offers trademark protection service for social media via TM.biz,a workflow-based tool for trademark professionals to search, watch and reserve usernames within the Internet's top social networks.[3]
Other Services
Aside from offering domain name and trademark protection services, the company also offer other services which include website and e-mail hosting, DNS management, blog hosting and watching & search engine marketing.
ICANN and Encirca
On October 13, 2003, Thomas Barrett urged ICANN to impose a moratorium on the introduction of all registry services until the GNSO has the opportunity to develop a consensus-based policy. He emphasized that the internet community, including all ICANN Constituencies, deserve clarity regarding the ICANN process to exercise a consensus on the new registry services. Barrett also said that the entire DNS industry should ensure that the public has the highest confidence that changes are being introduced according to a well-defined process based on consensus agreements. Furthermore, he applauded ICANN's decision to facilitate proposals though timely, transparent and predictable procedures for the introduction of registry services [4]
Controversy
On March 14, 2005, ICANN expressed its' concern regarding the registration practices of Encirca's ProForwarding Service on .pro, which is a restricted domain intended only for professional individuals and entities. ICANN alleged that their ProForwarding Service "seems to be designed to circumvent these restrictions by allowing anybody to obtain “the full benefits of domain registration” in .pro without having any professional credentials".[5] There were a number of communications made to resolve the issue.[6]