Company appoints Brian Cute as Chief Executive Officer.
The Public Interest Registry (PIR), the company managing the .ORG domain name, recently announced the appointment of Brian Cute as Chief Executive Officer. The company adds that Cute will assume his leadership position on February 1, 2011.
It articulates that prior to joining the company, Cute served as Vice President of Discovery Services for Afilias, a provider of internet infrastructure services and the Registry systems provider to the company for the .ORG domain. His experience within the Domain Name System (DNS) runs deep, having had management positions in both Network Solutions, a domain name Registrar, as Director of Policy, and Verisign, a Registry, as Vice President of government relations until 2003. He has led initiatives on wait-list service, private domain registrations, the elimination of Bulk WHOIS, and numerous other ICANN policy matters and has a keen interest in the development of the Internet of Things.
"PIR's core mission is to serve the public interest and provide a safer, more secure internet. Those primary values echo throughout Brian's work and general approach," said Maarten Botterman, Chairman of the Board and interim Chief Executive Officer. "As Chairman of the Accountability and Transparency Review Team at ICANN, Brian has constructively advanced the ongoing debate of getting the Internet industry to function more explicitly and effectively. We at PIR are pleased to have him on board, and we look confidently towards a future in which PIR will continue to step up in the public interest."
Cute added, "I have long admired the work being accomplished by PIR and am eager to work alongside its team to promote and achieve a safer internet as well as advance .ORG's position as a leading domain among Registries, for Registrars and as a trusted resource for internet users. I welcome the opportunity to build on PIR's impressive and successful track record."
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