Who are CentralNic?
CentralNic was founded in 1995 with the vision of bringing more choice and competition into the domain name marketplace. When Nominet launched the .CO.UK domain for the UK in that year, the original price was to be about £150.
However, once Nomination (CentralNic's predecessor) launched the UK.COM registry, charging only £32.50 per year, the effect of the additional competition reduced the price of domain name registrations in the UK, to the point where the UK is now one of the biggest marketplaces for domain names in the world, disproportionate to its population.
Growth
CentralNic brings experience, expertise, and a competitive business style to the domain registry space…
As the UK.COM registry grew, it was recognised that there was further potential to introduce new second-level domain names to compete with ccTLDs that had excessive pricing and restrictive registration rules. As a result, in the year 2000 Nomination was reformed into CentralNic, with a large portfolio of two-letter .COM and .NET domain names, covering over 70% of the world's population.
From the beginning, CentralNic's business model was well suited to offering a scalable registry platform: multiple namespaces were offered side-by-side (whereas most registry systems could only handle a single namespace and had to be cloned in order to support more than one TLD), and a strong emphasis on registrar-led sales and marketing which was an innovation in the days before the Shared Registry System (SRS) was introduced, when (the original) Network Solutions (now VeriSign) had a monopoly on all gTLD registrations.
New Ideas
The reformation of the company in 2004 with new shareholders and a new management team has resulted in a new era of growth and development for CentralNic, resulting in significant expansion into the marketplace, earning CentralNic its reputation as a major player in the domain name industry.
Looking to the Future
A key element in CentralNic's plans for development is to bring its experience, expertise, and competitive business style into the domain registry space, providing additional choice and opportunity for technical solutions for generic and country-code top level domain operators.
CentralNic has long-term relationships with most of the largest ICANN-accredited registrars and service providers, in addition to a network of several thousand registrars around the world.
These companies include:
Business Partners
- BT Group plc
- CSC (Corporation Service Company)
- eNom, Inc
- GX Networks Ltd (123-Reg)
- Key-Systems GmbH
- MarkMonitor, Inc
- Microsoft Corporation
- Network Solutions LLC
- Register.com, Inc
- THUS plc (Demon Internet)
- United Domains AG
- VeriSign, Inc
Technology Partners
- Community DNS Ltd
- InTechnology plc
- Loud-n-Clear Ltd
- Rackspace, Inc
CentralNic's Key Personnel
Daniel M. Schindler
Director and Chief Executive Officer
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Dan assumed his role at the beginning of 2004 and since that time has overseen a rapid expansion in CentralNic by increasing the number of registrar partners and developing new revenue streams. Apart from the London Head Office, CentralNic now has satellite offices in Nevada and Los Angeles, where Dan is now based.
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Joe Alagna
General Manager, North American Markets
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Since starting with CentralNic in 2001, Joe has been responsible for building and working with the CentralNic Registrar Channel. Prior to his work at CentralNic, Joe spent 8 years at AT&T Wireless as a Sales Manager, and National Accounts Manager.
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Gavin Brown
Chief Technology Officer
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Gavin has worked at CentralNic since 2001, starting as a web developer and becoming CTO in 2005. Prior to starting at CentralNic, he worked at a successful startup in the online recruitment sector, after earning an Honour's degree in physics at the University of Kent, at Canterbury. He has been published in several professional technical journals and also co-authored a book on the Perl programming language. He also participates in a number of technical, public policy and advocacy groups, and several open source projects.
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Jenny White
Registrar Support Manager
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Jenny has almost a decade of experience in the Internet sector, having worked for a number of Internet and domain name related organisations. She manages our Registrar Liaison and Customer Service team, and is responsible for managing relationships with most of the world's largest registrars.
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