founded 2000 in dublin ireland key people hal lubsen ram mohan roland laplante philipp grabensee ken stubbs jonathan robinson steve heflin scott hemphill steven pack john kane industry internet domain registry website afilias.info alexa rank 258 843 august 2015 update 1 afilias plc is the registry operator of the . info . mobi and . pro top level domain service provider for registry operators of . org . asia . aero and a provider of domain name registry services for countries around the world including . mn mongolia . ag antigua and barbuda . bz belize . gi gibraltar . in india . me montenegro . sc the seychelles and . vc st. vincent and the grenadines . afilias also provided ancillary support to other domains including . sg singapore and . hn honduras . contents 1 history 2 see also 3 references 4 external links history edit afilias was formed in october 2000 by a group of 19 major domain name registrars . 2 3 afilias ceo hal lubsen hired ram mohan as the cto 4 roland laplante as the cmo 5 and steven pack as the compliance officer for the company in 2001 . in february 2010 afilias acquired mtld top level domain ltd. the sponsoring organization and registry operator for the . mobi top level domain known publicly as dotmobi . while dotmobi continues to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary afilias is now the registered registry operator for the . mobi domain . 6 in december 2012 afilias acquired registrypro the sponsoring organization and registry operator for the . pro top level domain . while registrypro continues to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary afilias is now the registered registry operator for the . pro domain . 7 afilias is headquartered in dublin ireland with us offices near philadelphia sales offices in london uk an operations center in toronto canada and operational offices in new delhi india . see also edit generic top level domain references edit afilias.info site overview . alexa internet . retrieved 2015 08 10 . gmo internet group history . october 3 2000 . retrieved february 4 2016 . portal presse october 3 2000 . world s leading internet domain name registrars unite to create top level domain with global appeal . press relations presse portal . retrieved january 3 2014 . questia.com october 29 2001 . 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 . the free library . retrieved march 19 2011 . questia.com july 9 2001 . afilias appoints new chief marketing officer to build . info brand worldwide ; former mcgraw hill exec . to spearhead brand & marketing strategy for . info . the free library . retrieved march 16 2011 . hamilton david february 11 2010 . afilias acquires . mobi domain registry dotmobi . web host industry review . retrieved october 6 2012 . laplante roland january 17 2012 . afilias acquires registry services corporation . pro . circle id . retrieved january 21 2014 . external links edit afilias web site v t e website management concepts overselling web document web content web content lifecycle web hosting service web server webmaster website governance web hosting control panels comparison alternc cpanel directadmin domain technologie control gnupanel h sphere i mscp interworx ispconfig kloxo kloxo mr plesk usermin webmin top level domain registries afilias centralnic cira donuts neustar ovh uniregistry verisign domain name managers and registrars ausregistry cz.nic cnnic denic dnpric.es dns belgium domainz dynadot enom gandi godaddy hover japan registry service melbourne it museum domain management association name.com namecheap network solutions net4 nic m xico register.com tucows uniregistry uk2 web.com web content management system document management system wiki software blog software retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title afilias & oldid 703275924 categories computer companies of the united statesdomain registrieshidden categories articles containing potentially dated statements from august 2015all articles containing potentially dated statements navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschespa olfran ais edit links this page was last modified on 4 february 2016 at 15 14 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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