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Ireland. | Ireland. | ||
| employees = 150 <ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/companies/afilias Afilias on LinkedIn]</ref> | | employees = 150 <ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/companies/afilias Afilias on LinkedIn]</ref> | ||
| keypeople = [[Hal Lubsen]], CEO<br> | | keypeople = [[Hal Lubsen]], CEO<ref>[http://www.icannwiki.org/Afilias Afilias on ICANNWiki.org]</ref>, CEO<br> | ||
[[Ram Mohan]], | [[Ram Mohan]], EVP and CTO<ref>[http://www.icannwiki.org/Ram_Mohan Ram Mohan]</ref><br> | ||
[[Roland LaPlante]], | [[Roland LaPlante]], SVP and CMO<ref>[http://www.afilias.info/biographies/roland-laplante Roland LaPlante]</ref><br> | ||
[[Brian Cute]], VP, Discovery Services <ref>[http://www.afilias.info/biographies/brian-cute Brian Cute]</ref><br> | |||
[[Steven Pack]], Compliance officer <ref>[http://www.icannwiki.org/Steven_Pack Steven Pack]</ref><br> | |||
[[M. Scott Hemphill]], VP and General Counsel <ref>[http://www.afilias.info/biographies/m-scott-hemphill M. Scott Hemphill]</ref> | |||
| website = http://www.afilias.info | | website = http://www.afilias.info | ||
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* .mobi | * .mobi | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
Revision as of 18:01, 6 November 2010
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| Type: | Private |
| Industry: | Domain registrar, domain registry operator, domain service provider |
| Founded: | 2000 |
| Headquarters: | Office 107 3013 Lake Drive City West Dublin 24 |
| Employees: | 150 [1] |
| Website: | http://www.afilias.info |
| Key People | |
| Hal Lubsen, CEO[2], CEO Ram Mohan, EVP and CTO[3] | |
Afilias is one of the most important internet domain registrars, having launched the .info domains in 2001. It is also one of the few gTLD registry operators today. Also important is that Afilias is the registry operators for the .mobi mobile phone TLD since 11 February 2010 [8]. Afilias is also a service provider for a vast number of local and regional domains.
History
As an acknowledgement of the need for more competition at the registry level of the domain name industry, a number of important domain name registrars created Afilias in September 2000. Just two months later, in November 2000, Afilias was selected by ICANN to launch the .info gTLD. The success of the .info domains was huge, being considered the most successful new gTLD after the launch of .com.
The headquarters of Afilias is located in the capital city of Ireland, Dublin, as Afilias limited is an Irish company. Still, they have a large number of offices worldwide, including operational offices in New Delhi, India, an operations center in Toronto,Canada, USA offices in Philadelphia and sales offices in London, UK. Afilias Canada Corp also includes operational facilities in Ontario and sales offices in Vancouver.
Afilias is the second largest domain services provider after VeriSign, supporting over 14 million domain names, as of January 2008.
Products and services
Afilias is a domain service provider and a domain registrar.
Service provider for the following ccTLDs:
- .vc (Saint Vincent & Grenadine)
- .sc (Seychelles)
- .org (gTLD)
- .mn (Mongolia)
- .me (Montenegro)
- .lc (Saint Lucia)
- .in (India)
- .hn (Honduras)
- .gi (Gibraltar)
- .bz (Belize)
- .ag (Antigua and Barbuda)
- .aero (gTLD for the Airline and Aviation industry)
- .asia (sTLD for the region including Asia, the Pacific and Australia)
- .info
- .mobi