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New hires at Donuts, DomainDiction and 101domain

Kevin Murphy, March 14, 2013, 15:11:12 (UTC), Domain Services

It’s been a busy week in the industry for executive switcheroos, with Donuts, DomainDiction and 101domain all announcing senior-level hires.
Today it emerged that Elaine Pruis, a long-time key member of the Minds + Machines team, has jumped to rival new gTLD applicant Donuts, where she’s now director of operations.
That’s quite a surprising move, coming so soon before gTLDs start getting delegated and — perhaps more importantly — contention set resolution deadlines start closing in.
DomainDiction, the gTLD-focused PR agency, has meanwhile lost one top expert and gained two others.
Pinky Brand, an alum of .mobi, Verisign and Iron Mountain, has gone solo, launching his own consulting business under the name [ PINKY ] • BRAND.
Former NetNames strategy director Stephane Van Gelder, an occasional DI guest poster, has been brought on as lobbyist and copywriter, while IP lawyer Bart Lieben has been hired for his considerable expertise in sunrise periods.
Neither man is on DomainDiction’s exclusive payroll, and continue to have other projects.
Finally, 101domain yesterday announced that it’s hired Joe Alagna as head of channel development. Alagna until recently worked in the registry world, as CentralNic’s general manager for North America.


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Comments (4)

  1. Pinky Brand says:

    Yep the times they are a changin’…

  2. anonymous says:

    None of these folks are are the type to set the World on fire. Pinky’s last hit at Mobi was an ensemble act delivered in a competition vacuum. Alagna is a seat filler. Don’t know Elaine super well but M+M ops haven’t blow anyone away. These co’s would have done better bringing outside fresh faces than dipping into the same tired well. Truth.

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