Joe Alagna

Organization:	Intis Telecom (it.com)
Region:	North America
Country:	USA
Email:	ja [at] alagna.com
Website:	Intis Telecom
Blog:	https://alagna.com
Facebook:	Joe Alagna
LinkedIn:	Joe Alagna
Twitter:	@joealagna
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Joe Alagna is a Director of Sales at Intis Telecom (it.com). He was formerly a V.P. of Channel Development at 101domain and Afilias. He is well-known as the former General Manager of North American Markets for CentralNic, a London based domain name registry, which he left in February 2013. He started at CentralNic in 2001 and built relationships with the many registrars it works with as well as its 60 new gTLD clients. He was influential in establishing CentralNic as the largest sub-domain registry in the world and was responsible for creating their specialized division, Personal Net Names, a division that allowed domainers to quickly offer their own sub-domains to the general market and subsequently became their TLD registry product.

Joe lives in Southern California.

Career History

Mr. Alagna has held sales management positions at other companies, such as Lynk Systems and AT&T. In the 80s he helped build a leading sales team for a Chicago based direct sales team. He then moved to California, noticed the burgeoning mobile market, and joined AT&T as a National Accounts Manager. He was in charge of some of the company's largest accounts. His eye for market trends led him to the Internet during its commercial development phase in the mid-90s. He has become an expert on domain names, SEO, and online marketing.

Joe maintains his own portfolio of domains and volunteers for the Inland Empire Small Business Center, teaching classes in Online Marketing. Joe has spoken at ICANN, The Direct Marketing Association Conference, NamesCon, and Targeted Traffic Conferences.

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