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Here
comes another re-purposed ccTLD that
will be marketed to the public as a general
purpose extension. This time it is .me which
is Montenegro's country code. That nation
has signed a deal with an independent company
that will operate a new .me
registry to market the domains as
being perfect for personal use. Their slogan is .Me
is about You! Sunrise (trademark)
applications will be accepted in May with land
rush applications scheduled for June, followed
by the start of public registration July 17.
Afilias, who provides back end registry
services for .org, .info and many ccTLDs, will
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Oversee.net
(the parent of DomainSponsor.com, Moniker.com and
SnapNames.com) made a key appointment to their
executive team this week adding David Subar as
the company's Chief Technology Officer. He will
be responsible for building and implementing technology
that supports Oversee’s core activities in its Domain
Services and Marketing Services divisions, while
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aligning
the
Company’s technology resources for further
expansion. Oversee CEO and co-founder Lawrence
Ng (who was featured in our March
2008 Cover Story) said "Technology
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critical to
Oversee’s success and
the
appointment of David to CTO fills an essential
and strategic leadership role in
the
company. We’re committed to developing
the
best technology to serve our
stakeholders—domain investors, advertisers and
consumers. David will help us explore
the
most appropriate growth avenues to provide
competitive products and services in a rapidly
evolving industry."
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Subar
has over 18 years of experience in software development
and product management for start-ups and mature
companies. Previously, he was CIO at Interthinx,
a fraud detection and risk mitigation company serving
the
financial services industry. He has held numerous
technology leadership positions in startups for venture
capitalists and was CTO at PeopleLink, an idealab!
company. Of course, I am most impressed by the fact he
is an
Ohio
State
University
graduate (I also went to OSU - Go Buckeyes!).
(Posted
April 11,
2008) |
