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'''Pinkard Alan "Pinky" Brand''' has been involved in the domain name industry since 1996. He is the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at [https://iq.global/ iQ Global AS] (formerly known as RegistryOffice), a position he has held since 2018. He also maintains his own consultancy to Registry and Registrar Operators as Managing Director of [https://pinkybrand.com/ FocusNua USA (dba Pinky Brand Consulting.])  He also serves as Vice President of [[TLD Registry]] Ltd. operator of two [[Top Level Domain]] [[IDN]]s, [[Dot Chinese Online]] (.在线) & [[Dot Chinese Website]] (.中文网).
 
==Work==
Brand is also the Managing Director of FocusNua USA, dba Pinky Brand Consulting, [http://www.pinkybrand.com PinkyBrand.] Via iQ and Pinky Brand Consulting he provides business intelligence, abuse management, DevOps, private domain brokerage, and channel support services for new and existing [[TLD]]s and registrars and hosting service providers.


Pinkard Alan "Pinky" Brand has been involved in the domain name industry since 1996. He currently serves as Director, Domain Sales for [http://www.mtld.mobi dotMobi] (mTLD Top Level Domain Ltd).
From 2006-2012 he served as Director of Global Sales for [[dotMobi]] (Afilias Technologies Limited), a wholly owned subsidiary of [[Afilias]] Limited. He had oversight of sales, channel development and market evangelism of dotMobi's [http://www.goMobi.info goMobi] mobile website publishing service. He also shared responsibility for sales of the company's [http://www.deviceatlas.com DeviceAtlas] mobile device detection business as well as [[.mobi]] [[TLD]] domain name sales via accredited [[registrar]]s. He was also involved in the allocation of premium and reserved .mobi domain names.


He co-founded two multinational domain name registration and portfolio management companies (existing today)that count the world's most recognized trademark holders as clients, generating total revenues in the tens of millions of dollars. The first was in 1996, Internet Domain Names, Inc. d/b/a idNames. That company was among the first in the world to develop commercial worldwide domain name registry search software and a corresponding database of registration requirements for over 200 country-code top-level domains, as well as introducing the concept of online intellectual property protection and management of domain name portfolios. He led the sale and integration of idNames to [http://www.networksolutions.com Network Solutions] (NSI) in 1998. It was the first company acquired by NSI after they went public.
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 the 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 ===
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>


Pinky then went to work for NSI as Director of its idNames country-code domain name registration and corporate domain records management business unit from 1998 to 2000. He oversaw its expansion into Asia-Pacific and Europe, including offices and representation in Hong Kong, Greater China, Japan, Korea, United Kingdom and continental Europe.
Pinky founded and presided over the Houston chapter of the Young Entrepreneurs' Organization, and he has a passion for advising start-up businesses.<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/in/pinkardbrand LinkedIn]</ref>


After [http://verisign.com VeriSign] acquired NSI in 2000, Pinky served as Director of Market Development for the [http://www.verisign.com/information-services/digital-brand-management/index.html Digital Brand Management Services] (DBMS) business unit at VeriSign until 2002 when the entrepreneural bug bit him again.
==References==
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In mid-2002 he co-founded Arcemus LLC, a boutique corporate domain name management registrar that specialized in ccTLDs. [http://ironmountain.com/ Iron Mountain] (NYSE: IRM) acquired his company in 2004. He served as Vice President of Marketing for their Domain Name Management Services for two years before being hired by dotMobi to develop new markets, premium name and general domain name sales.
[[Category:Private Sector - Domain Name Industry]]
 
Pinky has been an active member of the [http://www.inta.org International Trademark Association] (INTA) since 1997 and has served on several of its committees. He is CLE-certified by the Virginia State Bar, and speaks regularly to IP counsel and domain name professionals around the world about domain names, mobile Internet ecosystem opportunities and intellectual property protection.
 
Pinky is a proud founding member and past President of the (80+ member) Houston, Texas chapter of the [http://www.yeo.org Young Entrepreneurs’ Organization] (now known as Entrepreneurs' Organization) in 1997-1998, which is allied with the [http://www.kauffman.org/ Ewing Marion Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.]
 
==Education==
 
Pinky holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Radio-Television and Film from the University of Texas at Austin and resides in Dublin, Ireland.
 
==ICANN Meetings Attended== 
 
* Marrakech, Morocco - June 2006
* San Juan, Puerto Rico - June 2007
* Los Angeles - November 2007
* Paris - June 2008
* Cairo - November 2008
 
==APTLD Meetings Attended== 
 
* Dubai, United Arab Emirates - June 2007
==Links==
 
* [http://www.mtld.mobi dotMobi]
* [http://www.mobithinking.com mobiThinking]
* [http://www.mobiforge.com mobiForge]
* [http://www.deviceatlas.com DeviceAtlas]
* [http://ready.mobi Ready.mobi]
* [http://www.pinkybrand.com Pinkard Brand Consulting LLC]
* [http://pinky.mobi Pinky's mobile site]
 
 
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Latest revision as of 16:16, 5 April 2022

Organization: iQ Global AS
Region: North America
Country: USA
Email: pinky [at] pinkybrand.com
Website:

   https://pinkybrand.com/

Blog: https://pinkybrand.com/blog-2/
Facebook:    Pinky Brand
LinkedIn:    Pinky Brand
Twitter:    @pinkybrand
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Pinkard Alan "Pinky" Brand has been involved in the domain name industry since 1996. He is the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at iQ Global AS (formerly known as RegistryOffice), a position he has held since 2018. He also maintains his own consultancy to Registry and Registrar Operators as Managing Director of FocusNua USA (dba Pinky Brand Consulting.) He also serves as Vice President of TLD Registry Ltd. operator of two Top Level Domain IDNs, Dot Chinese Online (.在线) & Dot Chinese Website (.中文网).

Work[edit | edit source]

Brand is also the Managing Director of FocusNua USA, dba Pinky Brand Consulting, PinkyBrand. Via iQ and Pinky Brand Consulting he provides business intelligence, abuse management, DevOps, private domain brokerage, and channel support services for new and existing TLDs and registrars and hosting service providers.

From 2006-2012 he served as Director of Global Sales for dotMobi (Afilias Technologies Limited), a wholly owned subsidiary of Afilias Limited. He had oversight of sales, channel development and market evangelism of dotMobi's goMobi mobile website publishing service. He also shared responsibility for sales of the company's DeviceAtlas mobile device detection business as well as .mobi TLD domain name sales via accredited registrars. He was also 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 the 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[edit | edit source]

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;[1] the acquisition was undertaken due to Network Solutions' interest in expanding into the quickly growing ccTLD market of the time.[2] Iron Mountain's acquisition of Arcemus was integral to its formation of its Intellectual Property Services department.[3]

Pinky founded and presided over the Houston chapter of the Young Entrepreneurs' Organization, and he has a passion for advising start-up businesses.[4]

References[edit | edit source]