The official Ethereum GlobalRegistrar deployed by the go-ethereum team in August 2015. This was the canonical name registry contract embedded as pre-compiled by
Historical Significance
The official Ethereum GlobalRegistrar - the root name registry embedded in go-ethereum and used to bootstrap Ethereum's naming infrastructure in 2015. One of the first registrar contracts deployed on Ethereum mainnet, predating ENS by over a year.
Context
In mid-2015, the Ethereum Foundation embedded a GlobalRegistrar contract directly into go-ethereum, with both source and compiled bytecode in common/registrar/contracts.go. The contract was deployed via geth's built-in registrar tooling. The bytes32-based API predates the switch to string arguments (commit 680e78e, Aug 3 2015 in ethereum/dapp-bin), making this one of the earliest functioning deployments of the GlobalRegistrar specification.
Key Facts
Description
The official Ethereum GlobalRegistrar, deployed at block 50,466 (August 13, 2015) by 0x3d0768da09. This is the canonical name registry pre-compiled by the Ethereum Foundation and embedded as GlobalRegistrarCode in go-ethereum's common/registrar/contracts.go (commit 83ee39448e, June 23, 2015). The deployer used go-ethereum's built-in --registrar deployment tool, which sent the embedded bytecode directly - no independent compilation required. The contract maps bytes32 names to owners, addresses, sub-registrars, and content hashes. It implements the full Registrar interface with 13 functions including reserve, transfer, disown, setAddress, and setContent. Notably, register(bytes32) is a temporary alias returning the sub-registrar address (the canonical subRegistrar() getter is commented out in source with a 'TODO: bring in on next iteration' note). The same bytecode was also deployed at block 51,245 (0xf436ceba) by the same developer.
Source Verified
Bytecode pre-compiled and embedded in go-ethereum commit 83ee39448e. Creation TX input matches GlobalRegistrarCode constant byte-for-byte.
Heuristic Analysis
The following characteristics were detected through bytecode analysis and may not be accurate.
Frontier Era
The initial release of Ethereum. A bare-bones implementation for technical users.
Bytecode Overview
Verified Source Available
Source verified through compiler archaeology and exact bytecode matching.
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//sol
import "owned";
contract NameRegister {
function addr(bytes32 _name) constant returns (address o_owner) {}
function name(address _owner) constant returns (bytes32 o_name) {}
}
contract Registrar is NameRegister {
event Changed(bytes32 indexed name);
event PrimaryChanged(bytes32 indexed name, address indexed addr);
function owner(bytes32 _name) constant returns (address o_owner) {}
function addr(bytes32 _name) constant returns (address o_address) {}
function subRegistrar(bytes32 _name) constant returns (address o_subRegistrar) {}
function content(bytes32 _name) constant returns (bytes32 o_content) {}
function name(address _owner) constant returns (bytes32 o_name) {}
}
contract GlobalRegistrar is Registrar {
struct Record {
address owner;
address primary;
address subRegistrar;
bytes32 content;
uint value;
uint renewalDate;
}
function Registrar() {
// TODO: Populate with hall-of-fame.
}
function reserve(bytes32 _name) {
// Don't allow the same name to be overwritten.
// TODO: bidding mechanism
if (m_toRecord[_name].owner == 0) {
m_toRecord[_name].owner = msg.sender;
Changed(_name);
}
}
/*
TODO
> 12 chars: free
<= 12 chars: auction:
1. new names are auctioned
- 7 day period to collect all bid bytes32es + deposits
- 1 day period to collect all bids to be considered (validity requires associated deposit to be >10% of bid)
- all valid bids are burnt except highest - difference between that and second highest is returned to winner
2. remember when last auctioned/renewed
3. anyone can force renewal process:
- 7 day period to collect all bid bytes32es + deposits
- 1 day period to collect all bids & full amounts - bids only uncovered if sufficiently high.
- 1% of winner burnt; original owner paid rest.
*/
modifier onlyrecordowner(bytes32 _name) { if (m_toRecord[_name].owner == msg.sender) _ }
function transfer(bytes32 _name, address _newOwner) onlyrecordowner(_name) {
m_toRecord[_name].owner = _newOwner;
Changed(_name);
}
function disown(bytes32 _name) onlyrecordowner(_name) {
if (m_toName[m_toRecord[_name].primary] == _name)
{
PrimaryChanged(_name, m_toRecord[_name].primary);
m_toName[m_toRecord[_name].primary] = "";
}
delete m_toRecord[_name];
Changed(_name);
}
function setAddress(bytes32 _name, address _a, bool _primary) onlyrecordowner(_name) {
m_toRecord[_name].primary = _a;
if (_primary)
{
PrimaryChanged(_name, _a);
m_toName[_a] = _name;
}
Changed(_name);
}
function setSubRegistrar(bytes32 _name, address _registrar) onlyrecordowner(_name) {
m_toRecord[_name].subRegistrar = _registrar;
Changed(_name);
}
function setContent(bytes32 _name, bytes32 _content) onlyrecordowner(_name) {
m_toRecord[_name].content = _content;
Changed(_name);
}
function owner(bytes32 _name) constant returns (address) { return m_toRecord[_name].owner; }
function addr(bytes32 _name) constant returns (address) { return m_toRecord[_name].primary; }
// function subRegistrar(bytes32 _name) constant returns (address) { return m_toRecord[_name].subRegistrar; } // TODO: bring in on next iteration.
function register(bytes32 _name) constant returns (address) { return m_toRecord[_name].subRegistrar; } // only possible for now
function content(bytes32 _name) constant returns (bytes32) { return m_toRecord[_name].content; }
function name(address _owner) constant returns (bytes32 o_name) { return m_toName[_owner]; }
mapping (address => bytes32) m_toName;
mapping (bytes32 => Record) m_toRecord;
}