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Type: Privately Held
Industry: Registrar and 3rd level registry
Founded: London, England, 1995
Founder(s): Robert Pooke, Steve Dyer
Headquarters: 35-39 Moorgate,
London, EC2R 6AR England
Country: UK
Employees: 25 [1]
Website: centralnic.com
dotbrandsolutions.com
Twitter: @CentralNic
Key People
Robert Pooke, founder & executive
Ben Crawford, CEO
Steve Dyer, founder
Joe Alagna, GM of NA markets
Gavin Brown, CTO
Mar Perez, Head of Business Development
Joe Chui, TLD Account Director
Lexi Lavranos, Marketing Director
Jenny White, Domain Operations Manager
Amy Repp, Strategy and Investment Executive

CentralNic is an internet domain name registry. Currently, they are the domain registration operator for the .la ccTLD; these are techincally domain names meant for Laos, though the company markets them as being Los Angeles domains.[2] Their headquarters is located in London, Great Britain.

Unlike traditional registrars, CentralNic owns some very short (2 letter) domain names, against which it sells third level names. They also have a worldwide network of over 1500 registrars.[3]

CentralNic currently manages 26 niche domain extensions including us.com, uk.com and eu.com, and is the only registry to have launched two new domain extensions in 2010, during which CentralNic also completed the largest deployment of DNSSEC of any registry to date.

CentralNic has recently launched Dot Brand Solutions, a service aimed at empowering CMOs, Brand Managers and Digital Marketing Executives to acquire, launch and manage their .brand TLDs.

History[edit | edit source]

CentralNic was founded in 1995 under the initial name of NomiNation by Steve Dyer and Robert Pooke. The name of the company was changed from NomiNation to CentralNic in 2000.

Services offered by CentralNic[edit | edit source]

Their main area of activity is domain registry services offered for a total of 25 sub-domain (second level TLDs), such as:

  • yourname.gb.net Great Britain
  • yourname.us.com United States
  • yourname.uk.net United Kingdom
  • yourname.jpn.com Japan
  • yourname.br.com Brazil
  • yourname.cn.com China

and many others.

References[edit | edit source]

External links[edit | edit source]

Official website of CentralNic
Location of CentralNic HQ on the map
CentralNic contact