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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 recognized authority on the use of domain name for e-crime.  He is an expert on registry operations, launches and [[Sunrise Period|Sunrises]], and domain name intellectual property issues.

'''Greg Aaron''' is President of [[Illumintel]], which provides advising and security services to [[TLD|top-level-domain]] registry operators.  He has launched and managed more top-level domains than possibly anyone on earth, and is an internationally recognized authority on the use of [[Domain Name|domain names]] for e-crime.  He is an expert on [[registry]] operations, launches and [[Sunrise Period|Sunrises]], and domain name [[Intellectual Property|intellectual property]] issues.

==Career at Afilias, 2001-2011==

==Career at Afilias, 2001-2011==

Greg was previously Director of Key Account Management and Domain Security at [[Afilias]].<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/greg-aaron/0/5/106 Linkedin.com]</ref>  He was part of the Afilias team that launched [[.info]] in 2001, and Greg managed .INFO from 2001-2005 and 2008-2011, handling Sunrises, creating product business requirements, and running business  operations.  In 2003 Greg led the development of a new, flexible registry platform for Afilias and migrated a number of [[ccTLD]]s onto it, including [[.ag]], [[.gi]], [[.hn]], [[.la]], [[.sc]], and [[.vc]].  Greg advised the Government of India and registry operator [[NIXI]] regarding domain and related Internet policies from 2004-2008, and in 2004 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, and Greg also led the creation of a test-bed for deploying [[IDN]]s in Indic languages. In 2006, Greg directed the service rollout for the [[.mobi]] TLD on behalf of Afilias' customer [[mTLD]], and managed .mobi services into 2008  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 a partership between Afilias, [[GoDaddy]], and doMEn.  In 2011, Greg helped ICM Registry create the business requirements and launch plan for the .XXX registry.   

Greg was previously Director of Key Account Management and Domain Security at [[Afilias]].<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/greg-aaron/0/5/106 Linkedin.com]</ref>  He was part of the Afilias team that launched [[.info]] in 2001, and Greg managed .INFO from 2001-2005 and 2008-2011, handling Sunrises, creating product business requirements, and running business  operations.  In 2003 Greg led the development of a new, flexible registry platform for Afilias and migrated a number of [[ccTLD]]s onto it, including [[.ag]], [[.gi]], [[.hn]], [[.la]], [[.sc]], and [[.vc]].  Greg advised the Government of India and registry operator [[NIXI]] regarding domain and related Internet policies from 2004-2008, and in 2004 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, and Greg also led the creation of a test-bed for deploying [[IDN]]s in Indic languages. In 2006, Greg directed the service rollout for the [[.mobi]] TLD on behalf of Afilias' customer [[mTLD]], and managed .mobi services into 2008  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 a partership between Afilias, [[GoDaddy]], and doMEn.  In 2011, Greg helped ICM Registry create the business requirements and launch plan for the .XXX registry.