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Joins DirectNic as Business Development Director — Mike Robertson

Joins DirectNic as Business Development Director — Mike Robertson

Australian who co-founded Domain Guardians to move to U.S. for role.

Mike RobertsonDNC Holdings (DirectNic) disclosed today that it has hired Mike Robertson as Business Development Director.

A familiar face (and Australian accent) at domain conferences, Robertson previously co-founded Domain Guardians. Domain Guardians started as a sort of estate planning system for domain name owners. It later shifted into other domainer-focused products counting domain brokerage. The firm handled the $1.0 million sale of BTC.com.

Robertson got his start in the domain business as business development manager for Fabulous, an Australian domain name registrar.

At DNC Holdings, Robertson will head up activities for aftermarket, monetization and account management programs. He will be relocating to the United States.

DNC Holdings recently promoted Kellie Peterson to President, and it seems the firm is in expansion mode.

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