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Initial ENS Hash Registrar

ERC 162, Initial ENS Hash Registrar. The implementation, as deployed to the main ethereum network on 2017-05-04, of a registrar contract to govern the allocation of names in the Ethereum Name Service (ENS).

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Authors: Maurelian, Nick Johnson , Alex Van de Sande
Date: 2016
Publisher: Maurelian, Nick Johnson , Alex Van de Sande
Version: Source cited by the 2016 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0382
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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Canonical readingERC 162 study
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Maurelian, Johnson, N., & Sande, A. V. D. (2016). Initial ENS Hash Registrar. Maurelian, Nick Johnson , Alex Van de Sande. https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-162

BibTeX

@techreport{erc1622016,
  title = {Initial ENS Hash Registrar},
  author = {Maurelian, Nick Johnson , Alex Van de Sande},
  year = {2016},
  institution = {Maurelian, Nick Johnson , Alex Van de Sande},
  url = {https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-162},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/erc-162}
}

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