Mason Cole
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| Organization: | Perkins Coie | ||
| Affiliation: | GNSO | ||
| Region: | North America | ||
| Country: | USA | ||
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| LinkedIn: |  Mason Cole
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| Twitter: |  @MColePDX
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Mason Cole is the Internet Governance Advisor at Perkins Coie. Before that, he was the Internet Governance Advisor at Perkins Coie (from December 2017 to November 2021) and the Vice President of Communications and Industry Relations at Donuts (from 2012 to 2017).[1]
From 2001 to 2011, he was the Vice President of Communications and Industry Relations for Oversee.net. He joined SnapNames, a subsidiary of Oversee.[1] He was responsible for the company's public relations and communications for its five operating divisions, its relationship with ICANN, and matters with regulatory agencies and international governments. Mason also directed the company’s intellectual property interests. He has successfully secured patents in the United States, Canada, and China.
Cole is also the former Chair of the Registrar Stakeholder Group,[2] and a board member of the Internet Commerce Association. He was representing the Registrar Stakeholder Group on the GNSO.[3] Cole has also been the Editor and Publisher of the State of the Domain industry analysis newsletter.
In a letter dated December 8, 2011, Cole, along with 27 other domain name industry representatives, wrote to Sen. Jay Rockefeller and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison to support ICANN's New gTLD Program, in response to the Senate Hearings taking place on the same day. They supported ICANN's argument that the program would be innovative and economically beneficial and noted that the program took a diverse group of international stakeholders years to develop.[4] The letter can be found here.
Career History[edit | edit source]
Mason's previous experience includes marketing and public relations responsibilities in the financial services and technology industries.
- Principal at 5x5 Communications LLC (September 2011 – May 2012)
- Vice President at Oversee.net (July 2001 – September 2011)
- Partner at New Venture Communications (March 1999 – July 2001)
- Director of Communications at Crabbe Huson Group/Crabbe Huson Mutual Funds (October 1996)
- Editor, Emerging Science and Technology at Forum Publications (November 1995 – March 1996)
- Marketing Representative at American Century Investments (November 1994 – June 1995)[1]
Education[edit | edit source]
Mason received his BA in Communications and Political Science from Drury University in 1990.[1]
Videos[edit | edit source]
In the lead-up to the New gTLD Program launch, Cole was interviewed about Donuts' strategy and expectations for the expansion of gTLDs:
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