Alexa Raad is the founder and CEO of Architelos, a strategy and marketing consultancy that focuses on growth, brand and positioning, and business development for clients within the Internet and DNS sectors. Alexa has the unique distinction of having launched a new gTLD (.mobi) successfully, as well as having guided an incumbent gTLD (.org) to beating the market growth rates. Alexa served as the CEO of the .org registry, the Public Interest Registry, from 2007 to 2010. She has more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications, payment, and Internet sectors, including 10 years in the domain names industry. She engineered .org's brand re-positioning and growth, both in revenues and in market share, from 6 million in registrations to over 8 million, and from $35 million to $54 million from 2007 to 2010 respectively. During her tenure, PIR was named a FUTURE 50 company, a recognition reserved for the 50 fastest growing companies in the Greater Washington Area. In 2010, Ms. Raad led what was the largest DNSSEC implementation effort at that time...read more
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InterNetX GmbH was founded in 1998 in Regensburg, Germany. The company provides internet business solutions, domain sales, virtual and dedicated servers, as well as customized server solutions for resellers and providers. They manage over 3 million domains and more than 1,400 physical servers with a focus on professional users in the European marketplace. InterNetX is accredited with VeriSign, Afilias, PIR, NeuStar and quite a few other registries, providing domains in over 300 TLDs. Via its subsidiary PSI-USA, it is an official ICANN registrar. InterNetX has sponsored ICANN Meetings at the Silver level. They operate a TIER 3 Datacenter in Munich...read more
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