Atallah, Alexander: Headliners added to NamesCon
Akram Atallah and Fiona Alexander have been added to the NamesCon agenda.
NamesCon, taking place in Las Vegas January 11-14, has added a couple big names to its agenda for the first full day of the conference.
On Monday, January 12, I will have a fireside chat with the president of ICANN’s Global Domains Division, Akram Atallah (pictured). Atallah is in charge of generic domain operations, domain name industry engagement and web services at ICANN. This includes fresh top level domain names.
Fiona Alexander has also been added to the schedule for Monday, and will give opening remarks. Alexander is Associate Administrator, Office of International Affairs, NTIA, US Department of Commerce. It’s the Department of Commerce that is involved with Verisign’s contract to run .com, and it’s also the group that right now assigns the contract for IANA functions. This is the contract right now at the center of much discussion regarding the U.S. government “giving up control” of the internet.
These are two big additions for NamesCon, and it shows the breadth of the conference. NamesCon is shaping up to appeal to all segments of the domain name industry.
