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Type:	Privately Held
Industry:	Registrar and 3rd level registry
Founded:	London, Great Britain (1995)
Headquarters:	35-39 Moorgate, London, EC2R 6AR
Country:	Great Britain
Products:	domains, sub-domains
Employees:	25 ^[1]
Website:	http://www.centralnic.com http://www.dotbrandsolutions.com
Twitter:	@CentralNic
Key People
Robert Pooke, founder & executive Ben Crawford, CEO ^[2] Steve Dyer, founder Joe Alagna, GM of NA markets ^[3] Gavin Brown, CTO Mar Perez, Head of Business Development Joe Chui, TLD Account Director Lexi Lavranos, Marketing Director Jenny White, Domain Operations Manager Amy Repp, Strategy and Investment Executive

CentralNic is an internet domain name registry. Currently, they are the domain registration operator for the .la ccTLD; these are techincally domain names meant for Laos, though the company markets them as being Los Angeles domains.^[4] Their headquarters is located in London, Great Britain.

Unlike traditional registrars, CentralNic owns some very short (2 letter) domain names, against which it sells third level names. They also have a worldwide network of over 1500 registrars.^[5]

CentralNic currently manages 26 niche domain extensions including us.com, uk.com and eu.com, and is the only registry to have launched two new domain extensions in 2010, during which CentralNic also completed the largest deployment of DNSSEC of any registry to date.

CentralNic has recently launched Dot Brand Solutions [1], a service aimed at empowering CMOs, Brand Managers and Digital Marketing Executives to acquire, launch and manage their .brand TLDs.

History[edit | edit source]

CentralNic was founded in 1995 under the initial name of NomiNation by Steve Dyer and Robert Pooke. The name of the company was changed from NomiNation to CentralNic in 2000.

Services offered by CentralNic[edit | edit source]

Their main area of activity is domain registry services offered for a total of 25 sub-domain (second level TLDs), such as:

yourname.ae.org United Arab Emirates
yourname.uy.com Uruguay
yourname.qc.com Quebec
yourname.gb.net Great Britain
yourname.gb.com Great Britain
yourname.hu.com Hungary
yourname.se.net Sweden
yourname.se.com Sweden
yourname.sa.com Saudi Arabia
yourname.ru.com Russia
yourname.ar.com Argentina
yourname.br.com Brazil
yourname.za.com South Africa
yourname.no.com Norway
yourname.kr.com Korea
yourname.jpn.com Japan
yourname.de.com Germany
yourname.cn.com China
yourname.us.com United States
yourname.uk.net United Kingdom
yourname.uk.com United Kingdom
yourname.eu.com European Union^[6]
yourname.com.de Germany
yourname.us.org United States
yourname.gr.com Greece

References[edit | edit source]

External links[edit | edit source]

Official website of CentralNic
Location of CentralNic HQ on the map
CentralNic contact

[1] CentralNic on LinkedIn

[2] NewCeo

[3] CentralNic's Joe Alagna Details How the Registry Services Provider Utilizes the World's Greatest Collection of 2-Letter .Com Domain Names

[4] Domains offered by CentralNic

[5] About CentralNic

[6] CentralNic domains

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 Unlike traditional registrars, CentralNic owns some very short (2 letter) domain names, against which it sells third level names. They also have a worldwide network of over 1500 registrars.<ref>[https://www.centralnic.com/company About CentralNic]</ref>
-CentralNic currently manages 26 niche domain extensions including us.com, uk.com and eu.com, and is the only registry to have launched two new domain extensions in 2010.
+CentralNic currently manages 26 niche domain extensions including us.com, uk.com and eu.com, and is the only registry to have launched two new domain extensions in 2010, during which CentralNic also completed the largest deployment of DNSSEC of any registry to date.
 CentralNic has recently launched Dot Brand Solutions [https://www.dotbrandsolutions.com], a service aimed at empowering CMOs, Brand Managers and Digital Marketing Executives to acquire, launch and manage their .brand TLDs.