Ram Mohan

Ram Mohan

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About

Ram Mohan is the Vice President of Business Operations and Chief Technology Officer at Afilias Limited.

Ram Mohan helped write the IDN Guidelines that has been widely adopted by registries worldwide and is an active participant in Internationalization efforts worldwide, including the ICANN President's Advisory Committee (PAC) on IDNs.  He is a member of the ICANN Security & Stability Committee (SSAC), and has served on three ICANN Nominating Committees (NomCom).  Ram Mohan has been a member of the ICANN Whois task force.  He sits on the boards of various educational and leadership organizations in the Philadelphia area.

Ram was instrumental in leading Afilias to its current position as the world's largest TLD registry services provider.  He was the technical leader on the winning .ORG bid that led to the creation of the Public Interest Registry (pir.org), and helped create the technology, business and policy foundations behind the successful .mobi and .asia top level domains.  In 2004, Ram and his company were appointed as a technology advisor to the Indian Government to liberalize the .IN country code domain name.  Working in close coordination with government, industry and civil society, Ram led the team responsible for the transformation of the .IN domain from 7,000 names registered at the start of 2005 to 200,000 names in 16 months.

Afilias, based in Ireland with offices in the US, Canada, India, UK and Germany, is the registry operator for the .INFO and .AERO domains, the registry services provider for the .ORG, .MOBI and .ASIA domains and 8 sovereign country domains (ccTLDs).

The opinions posted here are Ram's and not those of Afilias.

Except where otherwise noted, all postings by Ram Mohan on CircleID are licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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