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Hey folks ! I wanted to start for my first crypto-currency on Ethereum, and since I like vanity addresses, I wondered if such service was available or not for Ethereum. Thank you by advance !

Considering ethereum addresses are hexadecimal, you only get letters A through F (and letter-like digits, like 0 and maybe 1 and 5), so there are not a lot of words you can spell in an ethereum address. Or is your currency called DeadBeef?

There are the limits that come with the use of only the hex alphabet letters but it could be done if those constraints are ok.  Keep in mind that these services, most of the time, are doing nothing more than generating the addresses in mass numbers and parsing the list looking for a match to a client or parsing ahead of time for strings that look good together and match common names and words.

There is no way or if there is a way it is not easy to control the output of the public key for Bitcoin or other coins.  It is just a matter of filling a bucket with addresses and seeing what you want to keep and what you don't want.  There are those that even dislike the service because they claim that these addresses that are not used are being wasted, but trust me, there is a pretty big group of addresses out there waiting to be used.

You mean like https://ens.domains?

it all comes down to demand!
if people are interested in it somebody will modify the "Vanity Address Project for Bitcoin" and fork it for ethereum. but since there has not been anybody interested in such a thing nobody done it either (at least as far as i know, and searching didn't bring up anything either).

also be careful about using some of these websites or even if you found the open source project forked from Bitcoin Vanity address project in the future, because they may be malicious or at the very least have bugs that lead to fund loss.