Afilias Appoints Chief Technical Officer to Run First "Thick" Domain Name Registry: .INFO; Former Infonautics executive oversees first global implementation of an XML-based "thick" registry system.Business & High Tech Editors NEWTOWN, PA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--October 29, 2001 Afilias, the .INFO registry, today announced that Ram Mohan Ram Mohan is the Vice President of Business Operations and Chief Technology Officer at Afilias Limited. Afilias, based in Ireland with offices in the US, Canada, India, UK and Germany, is the registry operator for the .info and . has joined the company as its Vice President of Business Operations and Chief Technical Officer, overseeing the registry for .INFO and the first global implementation of an XML-based "thick" registry system. Mr. Mohan joins Afilias from Infonautics Corp., a pioneering online database and content distribution company, most recently helping it merge with Tucows, Inc., a leading domain name registrar An organization that manages Internet domain names. Any person or company that wants a presence on the Internet must register a unique name with one of the many registrars, such as Network Solutions (www.netsol.com) or Go Daddy (www.godaddy.com). . "We are very pleased to welcome Ram to Afilias' management team," said Afilias CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Hal Lubsen. "Ram's experience and success in building information-based start-ups into tremendous technology innovators will no doubt aid Afilias as its grows the development of .INFO -- the world's first unrestricted and truly global top-level domain." Mr. Mohan has held various leadership positions at Infonautics, including Interim COO, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. , and VP, Product Marketing. He is the founder of the award-winning Company Sleuth (http://www.companysleuth.com) product, and created the Sleuth line of business at Infonautics. Ram also helped architect Electric Library (http://www.elibrary.com), the United States' most used online reference database in schools and libraries, and Encyclopedia.com (http://www.encyclopedia.com), the first free encyclopedia on the Internet. "I am excited to come aboard with Afilias as it launches .INFO to the world," said Mr. Mohan. "The enhanced .INFO registry system will serve as a ground-breaking example for registries to come." "Thick" registry system Afilias is the first of the new top-level domains (TLDs) to globally implement an XML-based thick registry. The thick registry system is an enhancement to the "thin" registry system that exists today with .COM, as it stores all of the information associated with domain name registrations at the registry level allowing for more security and stability of the information. Additionally this system is based on the Extensible Provisioning Protocol The Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) is a flexible protocol designed for allocating objects within registries over the Internet. The motivation for the creation of EPP was to create a robust and flexible protocol that could provide communication between domain (EPP (1) (Enhanced Parallel Port) See IEEE 1284. (2) (Ethernet Packet Processor) A chip from Kalpana, Inc., Santa Clara, CA that doubles speed of Ethernet transmission to 20Mbits/sec. In 1994, Kalpana was acquired by Cisco. ), an enhancement to the existing Registry-Registrar Protocol (RRP RRP n abbr (= recommended retail price) → PVP m ), which enables more data flexibility and makes domain name management easier and more efficient. Afilias registry system also refreshes its zone file information on a near real-time basis (compared to every 24 hours for .COM), allowing a domain name to resolve through Web browsers within minutes of registration. .INFO is the first truly global, unrestricted domain name since .COM. To date, more than 500,000 .INFO domain names have been registered since the registry opened for registration on July 25, 2001. Those interested in registering a .INFO domain name should contact an Afilias-authorized registrar of their choice. A list is available at: www.afillias.info About Afilias Afilias - the registry for .INFO, the first new global unrestricted top-level domain - seeks to create the most direct and intuitive path to knowledge on the Web. Afilias is a consortium of 18 of the world's leading domain name registrars This is a list of domain registrars ranked in order according to ICANN statistics at [1]
Afilias was formed in September of 2000 in recognition of the need for increased competition in the domain name space. In aggregate, the company's member registrars registered more than 10 million domain names and collectively offer a wide range of related Internet services, including country-code domain name registrations, country-code registry operations, Web hosting, and ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. services. Afilias' shareholders include: 1stDomain.net, a division of G+D International LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control ; Corporate Domain, Inc.; Domain Bank, Inc.; DomainInfo AB; Domain People, Inc.; Domain Registrations Services, Inc.; Enter-Price Multimedia AG (EPAG EPAG Environmentally-Preferred Advanced Generation EPAG ECHO Project Advisory Group EPAG Environment Protection Agency ); Global Media Online, Inc.; Internet Council of Registrars (CORE); Netnames International Ltd.; Network Solutions, Inc.; Registrar Operations; Polar Software Ltd. d/b/a Signdomains.com; PSI-USA, Inc.; Register.com; Schlund + Partner AG; SiteName.com LLC; Speednames, Inc.; Tucows, Inc. Afilias maintains international headquarters in Dublin Ireland and U.S. headquarters in Newtown, PA. For more information visit www.afilias.info |
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