Ron Jackson
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| Country: | USA |
| Email: | ron[at]ronjackson.com |
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| Twitter: |  @DNJournal
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Ron Jackson is a journalist widely known as the Editor & Publisher of Domain Name Journal. He started publishing DNJournal on January 1, 2003 which rose to glory in no time as first publication of domain name industry.[1] Ron now works with DomainGang.com.[2] He is President at Internet Edge, Inc. and also runs NamesNewbie.com and IdealRegistry.com.[3]
Ron has graduated in Broadcast Journalism from a broadcasting school in Columbus, Ohio.[4]
Career History
Ron has been a journalism enthusiast since his teenage years. With over 40 years in the field, his career can be divided into two parts:
Employment
After graduation he started his career being a radio news director at a small station in Ohio. He was drafted in US Army as a broadcast specialist during the Vietnam War. After some years he became reporter at ABC-TV affiliate in Florida. He became station’s Sports Director at a station after two years and later became sports reporter for the CBS-TV station in Tampa.[5]
Business
After an employment period of around 20 years Ron stepped into business and opened a series of record stores, an antique shop and various internet ventures. He started domaining in 1997 when he bought his first domain name and published his first website; musicparadise.com. Ron started a publishing company name Internet Edge, Inc. in 2000.[6] In 2002 he started buying domain names as a business and own over 5000 domain names with around thousand three lettered .us domain names.[7] Later on in January 2003 he started publishing DNJournal feeling the need of a publication in the fast growing domain name industry. In next seven years Ron is known to cover every event in the field. He left publishing the journal in 2009 and sold it to Byte magazine.[8]
About ICANN
Ron opposes ICANN's decision to start registering new TLDs. He is of the view that there is no need for new TLDs at this point when people son't even recognize already present TLDs. He says it will pressurize businessmen to buy unwanted TLDs just to protect their name.[9]
Events
Since 2003 Ron has covered and wrote about all the major events of domain name industry.
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