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'''Pinkard Alan "Pinky" Brand''' has been involved in the domain name industry since 1996. He currently serves as Director, Domain Sales for [[dotMobi]].<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/in/pinkardbrand LinkedIn]</ref>

'''Pinkard Alan "Pinky" Brand''' has been involved in the domain name industry since 1996. He currently serves as Director, Domain Sales for [[dotMobi]].<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/in/pinkardbrand LinkedIn]</ref>

==Work==

==Work==

His position with dotMobi involves the oversight of .mobi sales via accredited [[registrar]]s and their goMobi service, he also is involved in the allocation of premium and reserved domain names.

Pinky Brand is the Director of Global Sales for [[dotMobi]] (Afilias Technologies Limited), a wholly owned subsidiary of [[Afilias]] Limited. His current position with dotMobi involves the oversight of sales, channel development and market evangelism of dotMobi's [http://www.goMobi.info goMobi] mobile website publishing service. He also shares responsibility for sales of the company's [http://www.deviceatlas.com DeviceAtlas] mobile device detection business as well as .mobi domain name sales via accredited [[registrar]]s. He is also is involved in the allocation of premium and reserved .mobi domain names.

 

Pinky had the unique distinction of advising the founders and Board of Directors of the [[.mobi]] [[Top Level Domain]] on marketing, sales and policy during their successful sunrise, landrush, and general registration launch periods in 2006.  He assisted them with conception, development, marketing, promotion and execution of various .mobi domain services to targeted channels, including raising millions of dollars for the .mobi registry via auctions of its premium domain names.

=== Entrepreneurialism ===

=== Entrepreneurialism ===

Mr. Brand co-founded two international domain management companies; idNames, and Arcemus. The former was sold to [[Network Solutions]] in 1998, and the latter to [[Iron Mountain]] in 2004. Both companies emphasized the registration and management of [[ccTLD]] portfolios with Fortune 500 companies, and other companies with trademark holdings that warranted being monitored and protected on a global scale. idNames was only 18 months old when it was purchased by Network Solutions, the purchase price was not disclosed;<ref>[http://adage.com/article/news/network-solutions-buys-idnames/5191/ Adage.com]</ref> the acquisition was undertaken due to Network Solutions' interest in expanding into the quickly growing ccTLD market of the time.<ref>[http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/20271/Network-Solutions-Acquires-idNames.htm InternetNews.com]</ref> Iron Mountain's acquisition of Arcemus was integral to its formation of its [[Intellectual Property]] Services department.<ref>[http://www.continuitycentral.com/news01535.htm ContinuityCentral.com]</ref>

Mr. Brand co-founded two international domain management companies; idNames, and Arcemus. The former was sold to [[Network Solutions]] in 1998, and the latter to [[Iron Mountain]] in 2004. Both companies emphasized the registration and management of [[ccTLD]] portfolios with Fortune 500 companies, and other companies with trademark holdings that warranted being monitored and protected on a global scale. idNames was only 18 months old when it was purchased by Network Solutions, the purchase price was not disclosed;<ref>[http://adage.com/article/news/network-solutions-buys-idnames/5191/ Adage.com]</ref> the acquisition was undertaken due to Network Solutions' interest in expanding into the quickly growing ccTLD market of the time.<ref>[http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/20271/Network-Solutions-Acquires-idNames.htm InternetNews.com]</ref> Iron Mountain's acquisition of Arcemus was integral to its formation of its [[Intellectual Property]] Services department.<ref>[http://www.continuitycentral.com/news01535.htm ContinuityCentral.com]</ref>