Antony Van Couvering
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Antony Van Couvering is the CEO of MindsandMachines.[1] He has played a very important role in the internet governance, having a significant part in the early days of creation of ccTLD. He also chaired the meeting in singapore which gave birth to ICANN.[2]
Career History
- He has been working in the domain name industry since 1996[3]
- He founded the company NetNames in 1997 and then sold it to NetBenefit.[4]
- He founded the company NameEngine in 1999. He worked at NameEngine for two years. At NameEngine, he got the experience of working with American Express, Bridgestone-Firestone, Citibank, Colgate-Palmolive, Goodyear, Intel, Kodak, and Viacom, and with IP law firms including Fross Zelnick, Ladas & Parry, and Brown Raysman.[5]
- He sold NameEngine to VeriSign in 2001 and then worked at VeriSign for some time.
- Antony has started and managed many country-code TLDs, which includes .TM,.AS,.BT, and .PW
- He, with the collaboration of Jon Postel played an important role in the reformation of the .US domain.
- He was head of the Policy Advisory Body under the old gTLD-MoU.