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Mason Cole

Internet Governance Advisor at Perkins Coie
Joined on July 22, 2003
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Mason Cole is Internet Governance Advisor at Perkins Coie. For more than 20 years, Mason has participated in the work of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the industry's governing body, including serving three terms as chair of the Registrar Stakeholder Group, a term as vice chair of the influential council of the Generic Names Support Organization (GNSO), and two terms as the GNSO's liaison to more than 170 international governments. He now serves as chair of the Business Constituency. A longstanding innovator and leader in the internet oversight community, Mason is the founding chair of the Healthy Domains Initiative, the Domain Name Association's ambitious program of registry and registrar self-regulation. He also has contributed to the policy work of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition and Internet Commerce Association. He also was vice president of communications and industry relations at Donuts Inc., a domain name registry, where he worked with company co-founders to secure 198 of the company's now almost 250 top-level domain names and helped manage the company's ICANN relationship. As company spokesperson, he established proof-of-concept for new domains with media coverage from CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Al-Jazeera and other worldwide outlets. Mason held a similar role with Oversee.net, where he fully supervised the company's interactions with ICANN and other regulatory authorities. During his time with Oversee, he successfully prosecuted patent claims in the United States, Canada and China. Mason was the founding publisher and editor of State of the Domain, the first-of-its-kind statistical analysis of domain name growth and trends.

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2016 - Aug 05	on	Why Registry Service Providers Should be Accredited by ICANN
2016 - Jun 29	on	Who Really Cares About New gTLDs?
2016 - Jun 14	on	7 Key Questions to Ask When Choosing a Domain Name Extension
2016 - Mar 25	on	WIPO Reports Rise in Cybersquatting Cases, Triggered by New gTLDs
2016 - Mar 10	on	DotSpam? Certain New gTLDs Rapidly Outpacing Legacy TLDs in Terms of Abuse
2015 - Nov 18	on	Verisign Should Clear Up the Paid "Analysts" Controversy
2015 - Jul 16	on	New gTLDs Are Great for Pump-and-Dumps, Phishes and More...
2015 - Jul 16	on	New gTLDs Are Great for Pump-and-Dumps, Phishes and More...
2014 - Dec 19	on	The Empire Strikes Back: "New" Verisign Hums a Familiar Tune
2014 - Dec 19	on	The Empire Strikes Back: "New" Verisign Hums a Familiar Tune
2014 - Dec 15	on	Early Data Suggests New gTLDs Perform Well in Search Environment
2014 - Nov 25	on	Experience and Evidence Point to Strong Renewal Rates for New TLDs
2014 - Nov 24	on	Experience and Evidence Point to Strong Renewal Rates for New TLDs
2014 - Oct 02	on	New gTLD Abuse Trends Beginning to Emerge
2014 - Oct 01	on	New gTLD Abuse Trends Beginning to Emerge
2014 - Oct 01	on	New gTLD Abuse Trends Beginning to Emerge
2014 - Sep 30	on	New gTLD Abuse Trends Beginning to Emerge

Topic Interests

DNS , Domain Names , New TLDs , ICANN , Cybersecurity , Policy & Regulation , Cybercrime , Brand Protection , Whois , Internet Governance , Coronavirus , Threat Intelligence , DNS Security , Domain Management , Registry Services , Blockchain , Web , UDRP , Spam ,

Recent Blogs

ICANN CSG and NCSG Make Progress at ICANN81

Dec 23, 2024
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Attacking DNS Abuse: The Next Amendments Needed

Nov 04, 2024
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Mason Cole

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Recent Blogs

ICANN CSG and NCSG Make Progress at ICANN81

Attacking DNS Abuse: The Next Amendments Needed

ICANN’s Registration Data Request Service: Open CSG Working Session at ICANN80

New EU WHOIS Verification Recommendations Take Center Stage

ICANN’s Registration Data Request Service: Open Working Session at ICANN79

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