Richard Tindal

Country:	Australia
LinkedIn:	[Richard Tindal Richard Tindal]

Richard Tindal is a domain industry expert. He is the Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Donuts, Inc., a start-up registry operator. Richard formerly served as Senior Vice-president of Registry at Demand Media, Vice-president of Registry at Neustar, Director of International Sales at Network Solutions and General Manager of U.S. Operations for Melbourne IT. He began his career in the techology in the technology in the United States working for Texas Instruments. During his term at Neustar, Richard successfully secured two contracts for the company to manage and operate the .us TLD from the United States Government and led the application and launching of the .biz TLD.

Education

Richard received his Bachelors Degree in Business from the University of Southern Queensland. He graduated with honors.

ICANN Involvement

Richard is an active participant in the different activities and meeting of the ICANN. He was a member of the Generic Names Supporting Organization's (GNSO) Joint SO/AC WG on New gTLD Applicant Support (JAS-WG) in 2010.

In 2009, while serving as SVP for eNom/Demand Media, Richard wrote to ICANN regarding the company's position in support of the issue on registry-registrar cross-ownership in new gTLDs. He emphasized that cross-ownership has been a common practice within the domain industry since 2001. According him, cross-ownership provides lower prices, innovation and improved services for consumers. It also promotes competition. He also opined that the only disadvantage in the mechanism is when a price cap exist where the supplier has a market power.

New gTLD Video Presentation

Richard made a video presentation on new gTLDs during his tenure as SVP for Demand Media. See video below: <videoflash>KBRmALNPxR8</videoflash>

Other Activities

Richard is blog contributor for CircleID, an online publication on internet infrastructure. His blogs related to the domain name industry is available here