Joe Alagna

Country:	USA
Email:	joe [at] us.com joe.alagna [at] centralnic.com
LinkedIn:	[joealagna Joe Alagna]
Twitter:	@joealagna
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Joe Alagna is the Head of Channel Development at 101domains. 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, 2012. He was also the General Manager at Directory.LA. He started at CentralNic in 2001, and worked with building relationships with the many registrars it works with and 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 allows domainers to quickly offer their own sub-domains to the general market.

He lives in 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 account manager. He was in charge of some the companies largest accounts. His eye for market trends led him to the Internet in its commercial development phase in the mid 90s. He has become an expert on domains, SEO, PPC, and online marketing.

Joe maintains his own portfolio of domains, and volunteers for a local development center by teaching classes in Online Marketing.