Mason Cole
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| Country: | USA |
| Email: | masonc [at] snapnames.com |
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| LinkedIn: |  [Mason Cole Mason Cole]
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| Twitter: |  @MColePDX
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Mason Cole was hired on May 1, 2012 by Donuts, a start-up gTLD registry company based in Washington, to assume the position of Vice President of Communications and Industry Relations. The company applied for 307 new generic top level domain names (gTLD) with ICANN's New gTLD Program.[1]
Mason was previously the Vice President of Communications and Industry Relations for Oversee.net. He joined SnapNames, a subsidiary of Oversee, in 2001 and left in September, 2011.[2] He was responsible for the company's public relations and communications for its five operating divisions, it's relationship with ICANN, and for handling matters with regulatory agencies and international governments. Mason also directed the company’s intellectual property interests. He has successfully secured patents in the United States, Canada and China.
Cole is also the former Chair of the Registrar Stakeholder Group,[3] and a board member of the Internet Commerce Association. He is currently representing the Registrar Stakeholder Group on the GNSO.[4]
In a letter dated December 8th, 2011, Mason Cole, along with twenty-seven other domain name industry representatives, wrote to Sen. Jay Rockefeller and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison to support ICANN's new gTLD program, in response to the Senate Hearings taking place on the same day. They supported ICANN's argument that the program would be innovative and economically beneficial, and noted that the program took a diverse group of international stakeholders years to develop.[5] The letter can be found here.
Work
Mason Cole was the editor and publisher of the the State of the Domain industry analysis newsletter.
His previous experience includes marketing and public relations responsibilities in the financial services and technology industries. Prior to SnapNames, Mason was a partner at New Venture Communications, a boutique marketing agency in Portland, Oregon. Prior to that he was involved in mutual fund sales and marketing with American Century Investments and Liberty Financial.[6]
He has also worked as the Editor of Emerging Science and Technology at Forum Publications.[7]
Education
Mason studied at Drury University.[8]
References
- ↑ Donuts Launches Domain Namespace Expansion With 207 gTLD Applications, More Than $100 Million in Funding
- ↑ RrSG Staff
- ↑ Dyn VP Gray Chynoweth Voted ICANN RrSG Chair, dyn.com
- ↑ New gTLD industry pleads with senators, domainincite.com
- ↑ Mason Cole - Vice President of Communications and Industry Relations
- ↑ linkedin profile