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Van Gelder leaves NBT, goes solo with consulting biz
Kevin Murphy,
December 12, 2012, 17:45:48 (UTC),
Domain Services
Stephane Van Gelder, who co-founded the French registrar Indom in 1999, is leaving the company at the end of the year.
He’s founding a new company, Stephane Van Gelder Consulting, saying he wants to provide consulting services to domain portfolio owners, registrars and registries.
Indom was acquired by European registrar holding company Group NBT two years ago for about $22 million.
Van Gelder was until October chair of ICANN’s Generic Names Supporting Organization Council, and has recently kindly provided DI with a few provocative guest posts.
Mon client a reçu cet email à ce sujet il y a peu. Ceci explique peut être cela.
Madame, Monsieur,
Comme vous le savez, INDOM a rejoint Group NBT Ltd en décembre 2010. Group NBT, que vous connaissez peut-être déjà à travers sa marque NetNames, est l’un des principaux leaders mondiaux en matière de gestion de noms de domaine.
Vous nous avez suivi et accompagné dans cette évolution et nous tenons à vous remercier pour votre fidélité.
Aujourd’hui, nous sommes fiers et heureux de vous annoncer que INDOM change de nom et devient NetNames. Cette nouvelle
étape illustre la volonté de Group NBT de révolutionner son portefeuille de marques autour de NetNames, référence mondiale dans la protection sur Internet des actifs immatériels des entreprises.
Au-delà de ce changement de nom et d’identité visuelle, notre ambition est de vous offrir une gamme plus large de solutions, développés autour de trois 3 pôles d’expertise : gestion professionnelle des noms de domaine, surveillance et protection des marques sur Internet, sécurisation de vos activités en ligne (SSL).
De nombreuses évolutions sont à venir, mais soyez rassurés, nous resterons très attachés à conserver cette politique de proximité qui a toujours été notre marque de fabrique. Naturellement, nous ne manquerons pas de vous en tenir informé.