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Key-Systems is an ISP and hosting company. It was founded in 1998 by Alexander Siffrin and received it's accreditation from ICANN as an official registrar in October, 2000. The German company has subsidiaries in the USA and Mexico and provides services to its end-customers and resellers through its three domain portals: RRPproxy.net, BrandShelter.com, and DomainDiscount24.com. As of May, 2011, Key-Systems has over 3,2 million gTLD & ccTLD domains under its management. There are another 1 million domain names registered by companies of the Key-Systems Group. The company is currently ranked second among leading registrars for global TLDs in Europe, and is the 6th largest ICANN registrar worldwide. They currently offer the fully-automated registration of more than 280 top-level and second-level domains....read more.

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http://icannwiki.com/index.php/CEO_Search_Committee

The ICANN CEO Search Committee was formed following Rod Beckstrom's August 2011 announcement that he will not continue as CEO past the fulfillment of his term, completed on 1 July 2012. The topic of CEO succession planning was first discussed at a Board meeting on 17 September 2011, where they directed the Board Governance Committee to appoint members to a CEO Search Process Management Work Committee. The committee is contracting with search firm Odgers Berndtson in Brussels, who will be handling application inquiries and expressions of interest. In January 2012, ICANN began openly advertising the position in places such as The Economist. The committee expects to announce their CEO selection in May, with the CEO taking office at the close of Beckstrom's term, on July 1, 2012... read more.

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-'''Afilias''' is one of the major [[gTLD]] registries in existence today, having launched [[.info]] domains in 2001. Afilias has also been the registry operator for the [[.mobi]] mobile phone [[TLD]] since February, 2010. In January, 2012, Afilias acquired [[RegistryPro|Registry Services Corporation]], which until that time had been the registry for the [[.pro]] [[TLD]]. Afilias also supports the technical back-end of 17 [[TLD]]s, including 7 [[gTLD]]s, the largest of which being [[.org]]. As an acknowledgement of the need for more competition at the registry level of the domain name industry, a number of important domain name [[:Category:Registrars|registrars]] created Afilias in September, 2000. Just two months later, Afilias was selected by [[ICANN]] to launch the [[.info]] [[gTLD]], which has been called the most successful new [[gTLD]] after the launch of [[.com]]...[[Afilias|read more]].
+'''Key-Systems''' is an ISP and hosting company. It was founded in 1998 by [[Alexander Siffrin]] and received it's accreditation from [[ICANN]] as an official [[:Category:Registrars|registrar]] in October, 2000. The German company has subsidiaries in the USA and Mexico and provides services to its end-customers and resellers through its three domain portals: [[RRPproxy.net]], [[BrandShelter.com]], and [[DomainDiscount24.com]]. As of May, 2011, Key-Systems has over 3,2 million [[gTLD]] & [[ccTLD]] domains under its management. There are another 1 million domain names registered by companies of the Key-Systems Group. The company is currently ranked second among leading registrars for global [[TLD]]s in Europe, and is the 6th largest [[ICANN]] registrar worldwide. They currently offer the fully-automated registration of more than 280 top-level and second-level domains....[[Key-Systems|read more]].
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