An image of Brian Cute, CEO of The Public Interest Registry
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The Public Interest Registry (www.pir.org), the company managing the .org domain name, announced on Friday it has named Brian Cute as the company’s new CEO.
The company says that Cute will assume his leadership position on February 1.
Cute has more than 12 years of experience in the Internet and communications industry.
Prior to joining PIR, Cute served as vice president of discovery services for Internet infrastructure solutions provider Afilias. The company helped connect people to their data and registry systems provider to PIR for the .ORG domain.
He has significant experience in the domain name system, having had management positions at domain registrar Network Solutions as director of policy, and Verisign 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 many other ICANN policy matters.
A lawyer by trade, Cute began his career representing the competitive telecommunications service providers.
He served as senior counsel at Teleglobe Communications, advising country managers on the expansion of Teleglobe’s submarine cable, satellite and terrestrial network in Europe and Asia.
“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,” says Maarten Botterman, chairman of the board and interim CEO. “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.”
The .org domain is the Internet’s third largest “generic” or non-country specific top-level domain with more than 8.5 million domain names registered worldwide.
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