Difference between revisions of "Afilias"

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Type:	Private
Industry:	Domain registrar, domain registry operator, domain service provider
Founded:	2000
Headquarters:	Office 107 3013 Lake Drive City West Dublin 24 Ireland.
Employees:	150 ^[1]
Website:	http://www.afilias.info
Key People
Hal Lubsen, CEO Ram Mohan, Executive Vice President and CTO Roland LaPlante, Senior Vice President and CMO
nTLDStats
TLDs:	21
Registrations:	173,298

More Info: nTLDStats

Afilias is one of the most important internet domain registrars, having launched the .info domains in 2001. It is also one of the few gTLD registry operators today. Also important is that Afilias is the registry operators for the .mobi mobile phone TLD since 11 February 2010 ^[2]. Afilias is also a service provider for a vast number of local and regional domains.

History

As an acknowledgement of the need for more competition at the registry level of the domain name industry, a number of important domain name registrars created Afilias in September 2000. Just two months later, in November 2000, Afilias was selected by ICANN to launch the .info gTLD. The success of the .info domains was huge, being considered the most successful new gTLD after the launch of .com.

The headquarters of Afilias is located in the capital city of Ireland, Dublin, as Afilias limited is an Irish company. Still, they have a large number of offices worldwide, including operational offices in New Delhi, India, an operations center in Toronto,Canada, USA offices in Philadelphia and sales offices in London, UK. Afilias Canada Corp also includes operational facilities in Ontario and sales offices in Vancouver.

Afilias is the second largest domain services provider after VeriSign, supporting over 14 million domain names, as of January 2008.

Products and services

Afilias is a domain service provider and a domain registrar.

Service provider for the following ccTLDs:

.vc (Saint Vincent & Grenadine)
.sc (Seychelles)
.org (gTLD)
.mn (Mongolia)
.me (Montenegro)
.lc (Saint Lucia)
.in (India)
.hn (Honduras)
.gi (Gibraltar)
.bz (Belize)
.ag (Antigua and Barbuda)
.aero (gTLD for the Airline and Aviation industry)
.asia (sTLD for the region including Asia, the Pacific and Australia)
.info
.mobi

Key people

Hal Lubsen, President and CEO ^[3]
Ram Mohan, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer ^[4]
Roland LaPlante, Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President ^[5]
Brian Cute, Vice President, Discovery Services ^[6]
Steven Pack, Compliance officer ^[7]
M. Scott Hemphill, Vice President and General Counsel ^[8]

References

External links

[1] Afilias on LinkedIn

[2] Afilias Limited Acquires .Mobi Domain Registry and Expands Market Leadership

[3] Afilias on ICANNWiki.org

[4] Ram Mohan

[5] Roland LaPlante

[6] Brian Cute

[7] Steven Pack

[8] M. Scott Hemphill

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 * M. Scott Hemphill, Vice President and General Counsel <ref>[http://www.afilias.info/biographies/m-scott-hemphill M. Scott Hemphill]</ref>
-The president and CEO of Afilias, Hal Lubsen, is one of the most important people in the business. He was co-founder for one of the first ICANN authorized domain name registrars, namely domain name registrar Domain Bank. <ref>[http://www.icannwiki.org/Hal_Lubsen Hal Lubsen]</ref>
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