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Promoted to President of DNC Holdings — Kellie Peterson

Promoted to President of DNC Holdings — Kellie Peterson

Peterson promoted from CSO role.

Kellie PetersonA familiar face at domain name conferences has been named president of DNC Holdings.

DNC Holdings, which you more likely know by its registrar name Directnic, has promoted Kellie Peterson from the Chief Strategy Officer role.

Peterson will be responsible for DNC’s registrar services, aftermarket, monetization and publishing units.

Ahead of joining DNC Holdings, Peterson ran the Domain Business Unit at Endurance International. Endurance, now a public firm, is a rollup of shared hosting and domain name registrars counting Domain.com. Prior to Endurance, Peterson was Executive Vice President at Name.com.

In a separate notice, Directnic stated it now accepts bitcoin and other crypto currencies for domain name registrations. It has integrated with GoCoin to accept bitcon, litecoin and dogecoin.

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