Jean-Christophe Vignes
| Country: | France |
| Email: | jc.vignes [at] nccgroup.com |
J.C. Vignes is the Director of Domain Operations at NCC Group where he oversees the Registry and Registrar aspects of the .trust extension.[1]
Prior to joinnig NCC Group, he was CEO of OpenRegistry which he co-founded.
He was also Vice-Chair of the Registrar Stakeholder Group at ICANN.[2] while acting as EVP & General Counsel of leading European Registrars EuroDNS and eBrand Services
A lawyer by training, he represented several new gTLD Applicants as Senior Counsel at French law firm Caprioli & Partners [3]. He is also an arbitrator within the Czech Arbitration Court.[4]
Mr. Vignes was part of the organizational team for ICANN Paris.[5]
Career History
- Director of Domain Operations of NCC Group
- Senior Counsel and Head of Domain Name Practice - Caprioli & Partners
- CEO and co-founder of OpenRegistry
- Executive Vice-President & General Counsel of EuroDNS.
- Board Member, ISOC France Legal Working Group.
- Editor, SVM Mac.
- Registry Liaison Manager, .tm Domain Registry Ltd.
- Legal Counsel, AFNIC, the .fr Internet Registry.[6]
Education
Vignes completed his law education from Paris Assas and McGill University.[7]
Videos
Gray Chynoweth interviews JC at ICANN 41 in Singapore about the new TLD announcement made by the Board.