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] [3]
Other Services[edit | edit source]
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.
An affiliated entity, at www.tm.biz, provides trademark protection services. This includes: a portal to the Trademark Clearinghouse for trademark agents, custom sunrise validation services via real-time access to over 85 online trademark databases. a real-time searching of usernames at the top 500 social networks.
Projects have included:
- .xxx pre-validation - .pw Sunrise validation - Global Radio Domains Sunrise (.am & .fm) - Trademark Clearinghouse Portal
The Company is also actively involved in assisting new TLD applicants with pre-launch activities, such as workflow systems for expressions-of-interest programs, registrant authentication, founder's program's and custom sunrise periods.
ICANN and Encirca[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
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]