Pinkard Alan "Pinky" Brand has been involved in the domain name industry since 1996. He co-founded two domain name registrar and portfolio managment companies that count the world's most recognized trademark holders as clients---generating total revenue in the tens of millions of dollars.
Pinky had the unique distinction of advising the founders and Board of Directors of the .mobi top level domain on marketing, sales and policy during their successful sunrise, landrush, and general registration launch periods in 2006. He assisted them with conception, development, marketing, promotion and execution of various .mobi domain services to targeted channels, including raising millions of dollars for the .mobi registry via auctions of its premium domain names.
dotMobi was founded by 14 visionary mobile operators, network & device manufacturers, and Internet content providers, including Ericsson, Google, GSM Association, Hutchison 3, Microsoft, Nokia, Orascom Telecom, Samsung Electronics, Syniverse, T-Mobile, Telefonica Moviles, Telecom Italia, Visa and Vodafone. dotMobi was recognized by Entrepreneur Magazine in its "2009 Global Companies to Watch", and received technology innovation awards in Europe in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
From 2008 to 2012, Pinky served as Director of Global Sales for dotMobi (now known as Afilias Technologies Limited), a wholly owned subsidiary of Afilias Limited, a global provider of Internet infrastructure services. Afilias provides registry and DNS services for more than 20 million domains, including more than 1 million active paid .mobi domains registered worldwide. Pinky also focused on sales, channel development and market evangelism of dotMobi's goMobi service that allows any business to publish a mobile website in minutes that works on any phone. He also shared responsibility for sales of DeviceAtlas, the world's premier mobile device detection database as well as .mobi domain names via a network of 250+ resellers in over 120 countries.
