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Andy Churley as Marketing Director — CentralNic hires

Andy Churley as Marketing Director — CentralNic hires

Churley has domain registrar and registry experience.

churleyDomain name firm CentralNic today disclosed that it has hired Andy Churley as Group Marketing Director. Churley will oversee marketing across all of CentralNic’s firms, which include retail registrars and backend registry services.

Churley was most recently Chief Marketing Officer at NameShield, a brand protection domain name registrar. Ahead of that, he was Chief Marketing Officer at fresh top level domain name firm Famous Four Media.

CentralNic (London AIM: CNIC) owns retail registrars Internet.bs and Instra. Instra is a popular registrar for brand protection clients since it carries many ccTLDs. CentralNic is also the backend registry provider for top level domains such as .XYZ and Radix’s portfolio of names. Additionally, CentralNic firm sells somewhat controversial third level domains, such as name.uk.com.

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