Greg Aaron
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| Country: | USA |
| Email: | greg [at] afilias.info |
| LinkedIn: |  [greg-aaron Greg Aaron]
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Greg Aaron is President of Illumintel, which provides advising and security services to top-level-domain registry operators. He has launched and managed more top-level domains than possibly anyone on earth, and is an internationally recodnized authority on the use of domain name for e-crime. Formerly the Director of Key Account Management and Domain Security at Afilias, Greg oversaw .INFO operations and Afilias' security programs, including domain name abuse policy and practices.
is the Director of Key Account Management and Domain Security at Afilias.[1] He manages registry services for the .info TLD, and oversees Afilias' security programs, designed to address domain name abuses such as phishing, spam, malware, and fast-flux. He is also an expert on Sunrises, domain name intellectual property issues, and IDNs.
He managed registry services for the .info TLD, and oversees Afilias' security programs, designed to address domain name abuses such as phishing, spam, malware, and fast-flux. He is also an expert on Sunrises, domain name intellectual property issues, and IDNs.
Career at Afilias, 2001-2011[edit | edit source]
Greg was Director of Key Account Management and Domain Security at Afilias.[2] Greg was part of the Afilias team that launched .info in 2001, and Greg managed .info operations from 2001-2005 and 2008-2011. Greg then led the development of a new, flexible registry platform for Afilias and migrated a number of ccTLDs onto it, including .ag, .gi, .hn, .la, .sc, and .vc. In 2004, Greg led the re-launch of .in, the ccTLD for India, on new systems with a set of liberalized policies; the .in domain grew from 6,500 to more than 450,000 domains in short order. Greg advised the Government of India and registry operator NIXI regarding domain and related Internet policies from 2004-2008,[3] and led the creation of a test-bed for deploying IDNs in Indic languages. In 2006, Greg directed the service rollout for the .mobi TLD on behalf of Afilias' customer mTLD. After a smooth rollout, .mobi became the largest and most prominent domain from the last round of new TLDs. In 2008, Greg directed the highly successful introduction of .me, the ccTLD for Montenegro. In 2011, Greg helped ICM Registry create its businessrequirements and launch plan for the .XXX registry.
Security and Anti-abuse[edit | edit source]
Greg also represents Afilias on the Steering Committee of the APWG. His recent white papers on how domain names are used for phishing have been well received.[4]
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Other Contributions[edit | edit source]
Greg is the chair of ICANN's Registration Abuse Policy Working Group.[5] He is a founding member of the Registry Internet Safety Group, and serves as its secretary. He is also an active member of ICANN's Fast-Flux Working Group.[6]
In 2004, Greg led the re-launch of .in, the ccTLD for India, on new systems with a set of liberalized policies; the .in domain then grew from 6,500 to more than 450,000 domains. Greg advised the Government of India and registry operator NIXI regarding domain and related Internet policies from 2004-2008,[7] and led the creation of a test-bed for deploying IDNs in Indic languages.
He is a member of the W3C's Internationalization Core Working Group and sat on the steering committee of the W3C's.[8]
Previously, he worked at Internet companies such as Travelocity and CitySearch, and in 1997 became one of the first bloggers to cover Silicon Valley.