Pinky Brand

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Pinkard Alan "Pinky" Brand is a domain name industry consultant, currently directing new market development for dotMobi (mTLD Top Level Domain Ltd).

He co-founded two multinational domain name registration and portfolio management companies (existing today)that count the world's most recognized trademark holders as clients---generating total revenues in the tens of millions of dollars. The first was in 1996, Internet Domain Names, Inc. d/b/a idNames. That company was among the first in the world to develop commercial worldwide domain name registry search software and a corresponding database of registration requirements for over 200 country-code top-level domains, as well as introducing the concept of online intellectual property protection and management of domain name portfolios. He leveraged the world-record purchase price paid by his business partner in 1997 for “business.com” (for the then unbelievable price of US$150,000) by creating instant buzz around the world for their then fledgling Internet start up. He led the sale and integration of idNames to Network Solutions (NSI) in 1998. It was the first company acquired by NSI after they went public.

Pinky then went to work for NSI as Director of its idNames country-code domain name registration and corporate domain records management business unit from 1998 to 2000. He oversaw its expansion into Asia-Pacific and Europe, including offices and representation in Hong Kong, Greater China, Japan, Korea, United Kingdom and continental Europe.

After VeriSign acquired NSI in 2000, Pinky served as Director of Market Development for the Digital Brand Management Services (DBMS) business unit at VeriSign until 2002 when the entrepreneural bug bit him again.

So he and some other NSI and VeriSign alumnus started Arcemus LLC in 2002, a registrar catering to major global trademark holders and corporations. Iron Mountain, an ICANN acreditted registrar, liked what they saw and acquired his company in 2004. He agreed to stay on for 2 years and served as VP of Marketing for their Domain Name Management Servicesfrom 2004 to 2006. During that period he also was instrumental in searching for and identifying cutting-edge online monitoring and enforcement technology supplied by companies such as Avestar-IP---eventually marketing Avestar's technology as Iron Mountain's new Enforcement Service, launched in 2006 right before he departed to strike out on his own again---this time as a consultant to the industry.

Pinky has been an active member of the International Trademark Association (INTA) since 1997 and has served on several of its committees. He is CLE-certified by the Virginia State Bar, and speaks regularly to IP counsel and domain name professionals around the world about domain names, online intellectual property protection and pay-per-click (PPC) issues.

Pinky is a founding member of, and served as President of the (80+ member) Houston, Texas chapter of the Young Entrepreneurs’ Organization in 1997-1998, which is allied with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.

Pinky holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Radio-Television and Film from the University of Texas at Austin and resides in Bethesda, Maryland; just outside of Washington D.C.

ICANN Meetings Attended: Marrakech, Morocco - June 2006; San Juan, Puerto Rico - June 2007 APTLD Meetings Attended: Dubai, United Arab Emirates - June 2007

Contact Information: Email: info at pinkybrand dot com Office: +1.301.637.4890 (-5:00 GMT)

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