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Andrzej Bartosiewicz is CEO at Yonita Inc., an offshoot of Yon Consulting, which he co-founded in 2010. He was previously a Member of the Board of CENTR, having served as Chair from 2006 to 2010. From 2001 to 2010, he was Director of the .pl registry, NASK. He is a Member of ICANN's Incident Response Working Group, and has been a part of ISOC Poland since 2000. Bartosiewicz served as Head of Delegation of the Polish Government to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and Chairman and Rapporteur of the ITU-T Study Group from 2005 to 2009. He was also a Member of the Domain Arbitration Committee at the Polish Chamber of Informatics and Telecommunication (PIIT) from 2002 until 2003...read more

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The Public Interest Registry (PIR) is a generic top-level Domain registry that manages the .org top level domain. The non-profit was established in January, 2003 by the Virginia-based Internet Society. PIR was formed to take over the operation and maintenance of the .org domain and its database from VeriSign Global Registry Services, a division of VeriSign. The organization has its office in Reston, Virginia. The .org top-level domain was first created in October, 1984 by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, as part of its implementation of the RFC 920. Though the RFC limited the scope of the .org domain to non-profit organizations or to organizations of a non-commercial nature, over time the scope of the domain has expanded to include any entity, whether organizational or individual, commercial or non-commercial. The first .org domain was registered by MITRE Corporation, a non-profit organization providing systems engineering and information technology support to the US government, on July 10, 1985.....read more