Ron Jackson
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| Country: | USA |
| Email: | ron[at]ronjackson.com |
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| Twitter: |  @DNJournal
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Ron Jackson is a journalist widely known as the Editor & Publisher of Domain Name Journal. He started publishing DNJournal on January 1, 2003, effectively becoming the first publication geared towards the domain name industry.[1] He is President at Internet Edge, Inc. and also runs NameNewbie.com and IdealRegistry.com.[2]
Mr. Jackson graduated in Broadcast Journalism from a broadcasting school in Columbus, Ohio.[3]
Career History
After graduation, he started his career as a radio news director at a small station in Ohio. He was drafted by the US Army as a broadcast specialist during the Vietnam War. Later positions included work as a reporter, and eventually as the Sports Director, at an ABC-TV affiliate in Florida, and as a reporter for the CBS-TV station in Tampa.[4]
Business
After an employment period of around 20 years Ron stepped into business and opened a series of record stores, an antique shop and various internet ventures. He started domaining in 1997 when he bought his first domain name and published his first website; musicparadise.com. Ron started a publishing company name Internet Edge, Inc. in 2000.[5] In 2002 he started buying domain names as a business and own over 5000 domain names with around thousand three lettered .us domain names.[6] Later on in January 2003 he started publishing DNJournal feeling the need of a publication in the fast growing domain name industry.
About ICANN
Ron opposes ICANN's decision to start registering new TLDs. He is of the view that there is no need for new TLDs at this point when people don't even recognize already available TLDs. He says it will pressurize businessmen to buy unwanted TLDs just to protect their name.[7]
Events
Since 2003 Ron has covered and wrote about all the major events of domain name industry.
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