DotHealth, LLC

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Type: Privately held
Industry: Internet/Registry
Founder(s): Andy Weissberg
Neil Posner
Headquarters: 54 Walthery Avenue

Ridgewood, NJ 07450

Country: USA
Website: dothealthgtld.com
Key People
Andy Weissberg, CEO
Neil Posner, COO

DotHealth, LLC is a new registry operator applying for the .health generic top level domain name (gTLD) with ICANN's New gTLD Program. The company aims to develop the .health as the most trusted domain name space for the health science industry worldwide.[1]

The company partnered with Neustar as its back-end registry service provider, STRAAT Investments, the same company that provided initial funding for .co Internet and applied for other new gTLDs itself, and LegitScript, a company engaged in investigating the legitimacy of an online pharmacy's operations.[2]

DotHealth LLC is co-founded by Andy Weisbergs, former head of Bowker’s Identifier Services Strategic Business Unit & ISO Standards Operations, and Neil Posner, former Vice-president of Pricing Strategy for Avaya. Weisbergs and Posner serve as CEO and COO for the company.[3]

Supporters

DotHealth LLC is supported by the following health industry organizations: [4]

  • National Association of Boards of Pharmacy
  • Inter-American College of Physicians and Surgeons
  • Association of Black Cardiologists
  • Regulatory Harmonization Institute
  • World Federation of Chiropractic

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