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PR Newswire

United States, New York. Company that helps corporations, public relations firms and non-governmental organizations to deliver news and multimedia content. Has offices in 14 countries and has several brands and services that include ProfNet, eWatch, MEDIAtlas, MultiVu, U.S. Newswire, Vintage Filings, MediaRoom and MediaSense. Cooperates with global news agencies such as Bloomberg, the Associated Press, Dow Jones and Reuters to send information directly to newsrooms worldwide. Offers .tel domains to its clients and journalist contacts at reduced rates. Person: Ninan Chacko (chief executive officer). by stateoftel Dec 21

United Business

England, London. Business that provides business information services principally to the technology, healthcare, media, automotive and financial services industries. Listed on the London Stock Exchange. Owner of PR Newswire. Persons: John Botts (chairman), David Levin (chief executive officer). by stateoftel Dec 21

David Levin

In addition to this profile: David Levin held senior positions at Psion, Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC, Apax Partners, Universal Grinding Wheels of Stafford and Bain & Company. by stateoftel Dec 14

http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=72902&privcapId=19265&previousCapId=310518&previousTitle=United%20Business%20Media%20plc

John Botts

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In addition to this profile: United Bussines Media is owner of PR Newswire, a company that helps corporations, public relations firms and non-governmental organizations to deliver news and multimedia content. by stateoftel Dec 21

Ninan Chacko

In addition to BusinessWeek's profile: PR Newswire is a company that helps corporations, public relations firms and non-governmental organizations to deliver news and multimedia content. It offers .tel domains to its clients and journalist contacts at reduced rates. by stateoftel Dec 21

Industrial Web Search

United States, north of New York. Industrial search engine designed specifically to target industrial and commercial buyers. Based on content tagging, seller members use keywords and phrases (tags) to identify their products and services to buyers. Is the first industrial search engine to integrate .tel's click to connect feature to place a call, send an email, visit a web page, or download a companys vCard to their desktop or mobile contact manger. Owned by Industrial Web Solutions. by stateoftel Feb 8

Accurate Imaging

United States, north-east of Atlanta. Global marketing and web development agency that serves clients in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia. Offers website design, search locomotive optimization, custom request development, consulting for business publicity and marketing, and design and management services for multi-channel initiatives. Owner of Industrial Web Solutions. by stateoftel Feb 8

WebVisible

United States, south-east of Los Angeles. Software as a Service (SaaS) company and leading name in local online advertising. Highly awarded company. Is recognized for being a true expert in bringing the Internet as an advertising and customer acquisition medium to small businesses around the world. Provides .tel domains for all of its small business customers since December 2010. by stateoftel Feb 14

Doug LaBahn

Executive vice-president of product development at WebVisible. Said in December 2010, after announcing that WebVisible was to incorporate .tel in their services: "With increasing competition for eyeballs online and the need for small businesses to be in as many places as possible in order to be discovered, we believe that .tel will be a significant enhancement for our clients when it comes to the multiple ways in which consumers are accessing local information. (...) The functionality and ease of use of .tel makes it an incredibly useful and low-cost central point of contact." by stateoftel Jan 24

Ronald Burr

Ronald Terry Burr (born September 30, 1964) is an American Internet and media entrepreneur, based in Los Angeles, CA. He is the holder of nine internet patents [ 1 ] and the co-founder and original chief executive officer of NetZero . During his career he has created over $1 Billion in value for shareholders. [ 2 ] Early in his career Burr developed software applications which are used by IBM , Verizon Wireless , and Sempra Energy . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_T._Burr

In addition to this profile: in his career Burr raised over $400mm in capital. by stateoftel Feb 14

Universal Business Listing

United States, to the east of Atlanta. Provides a single entry point for enhanced business profiles which it distributes to all major search engines, Yellow Pages, social networks, mobile phones, 411 directory assistance, map sites and GPS devices. Is dedicated to providing an inexpensive, enhanced, business listing in one place that can be distributed uniformly to all major online directories and local based search engines. Started to integrate .tel domains within their service in January 2011. by stateoftel Feb 14

Name Dynamics

United States, to the east of Atlanta. Is a business focused on the next generation of identity listings for businesses across social networks, portals, search engines, yellow page directories, city guides and 411 directory assistance. Is operator of Universal Business Listing. Founded by Doyal Bryant and Chris Travers by stateoftel Feb 14

Doyal Bryant

In addition to this profile: BlueLake Capital Partners provides advisory services and management support to growth stage companies, both public and private, specializing in internet networking, wireless and wireline telecommunications and broadband and new media related companies. Doyal Bryant said about partnering with Telnic: "The .tel domain offers businesses a highly refined 'contact-us' page with strong visibility and quick indexing in search engines, making it an important tool for managing an online business identity." by stateoftel Feb 14

Chris Travers

http://www.crunchbase.com/person/chris-travers Chris Travers is an Internet media entrepreneur, and co-founder of Universal Business Listings. Chris has more than 20 years experience as a senior media executive and consultant to the online, news and Cable TV industries. As a journalist and editor he worked in Australia, England and the United States, including time as a White House correspondent. He has since held management positions at Reuters, Cablevision and Rainbow Media, and was CEO of FutureTV. He was the co-founder of the interactive media and advertising company, Empire Media and served as CEO of the search engine, Find.com. Based in Connecticut, he is an active entrepreneur and investor in Internet media.

In addition to this profile: Chris Travers' specialties are search engine development and interactive advertising. by stateoftel Feb 14

Dotster

United States, to the south of Washington. Large domain name registrar, which has private equity firm Baker Capital as its main investor. Offers .tel domains at a reduced price. Persons: Clint Page (president and chief executive officer), Brian Unruh (senior vice president and chief financial officer), William Shawn McCaughan (vice president operations). by stateoftel Dec 21

Baker Capital

United States, New York. Private equity firm that is the main investor of Dotster. by stateoftel Dec 14

http://icannwiki.org/Clint_Page is the former President and CEO of Dotster , an ICANN accredited domain registrar. He left Dotster in November, 2011. [1] Education Mr.

Clint Page

In addition: private equity firm Baker Capital is Dotster's main investor. The domain registrar offers .tel domains at a reduced price. Clint Page, in an interview with Domain Informer: 'Domain names will become like phone numbers. They will become a destination not just for e-mail but for all types of communications. Everyone will have a domain name. There will be a growing convergence of information around domain names including: Web pages on PCs, PDAs, cell phones and other machines as well as an international expansion of Top Level Domains.' by stateoftel Dec 21

http://suite101.com/article/online-social-networking-via-tel-domains-a147994 With the recent proliferation of privacy issues on internet online social networks, CareerAdvice sought out the opinions of those working directly in this field.

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Brian Unruh

In addition to this profile: InFocus Corporation was a $800 million public global digital projection technology company when Brian Unruh worked there. by stateoftel Dec 14

eNom

United States, to the east of Seattle. Second largest domain registrar in the world, which is directly related to 10 million domain names. Acquired in 2006 BulkRegister and is owned by Demand Media. Offers .tel domain names and will bundle 'other value-added services' with this offering. Persons: Michael Blend (president), Jeffrey Eckhaus (general manager) and Chris Ambler (chief software strategist). by stateoftel Dec 14

BulkRegister

United States, to the east of Seatlle. Wholesale provider of high-volume domain name registration services that offers .tel domains prominently on its main page. Was acquired in 2006 by eNom. Like eNom it is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Demand Media. by stateoftel Dec 10

Demand Media

United States, to the east of Seattle. Leader in distributed social media which harnesses the creativity of individuals to deliver valuable content and help websites grow by providing content and community features 'that consumers truly want'. Raised more than 355 million dollars from tier-one investors, including Oak Investment Partners, Spectrum Equity Investors and Goldman Sachs. Persons: Richard Rosenblatt (co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer), Shawn Colo (co-founder and head mergers & acquisitions), Charles Hilliard (president and chief financial officer). by stateoftel Dec 10

Richard Rosenblatt has a unique vision for the future of the Internet. A serial entrepreneur, Richard’s latest venture is Demand Media , a company he co-founded in May 2006 and serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Demand Media has developed a unique platform that leverages cutting edge, user-driven publishing, community, and monetization tools as it seeks to define the next generation of new media companies. Richard has built, operated, and sold over $1.3 billion of Internet media companies. http://www.crunchbase.com/person/richard-rosenblatt

Richard Rosenblatt

In addition to CrunchBase's profile: Richard Rosenblatt sold MySpace and Intermix in 2005 to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation for 650 million dollars. by stateoftel Dec 14

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In addition: Demand Media is owner of domain name registration companies that promote .tel domains. by stateoftel Dec 21

Goldman Sachs

United States, New York. Leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities and investment management services to corporations, financial institutions, governments and high-net-worth individuals. Is one of the investors behind Demand Media, a leader in distributed social media. Persons: Lloyd Blankfein (chairman and chief executive officer), David Viniar (chief financial officer and executive vice president), Gary Cohn (president, chief operating officer and director). by stateoftel Dec 14

OAK Investment

United States, to the north-east of New York. Multi-stage venture capital firm, which has its primary investment focus on high growth opportunities in broadband internet and wireless communications, information technology and software outsourced services, consumer internet/new media, financial services technology, healthcare information and services, clean energy, and retail. Raised more than 8.4 billion dollars in investor commitments. Invested in Huffington Post (25 million) and Demand Media. Persons: Bandel Carano and Fred Harman (managing partners). by stateoftel Dec 14

Bandel Carano

In addition to Forbes's profile: Bandel Carano has invested in companies with an emphasis on wireless and rich-media communications (2Wire, Airspan, Avici, CommVerge, CoreTek, Endwave, FiberTower, General Bandwidth, Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, MobiTV, NeoPhotonics, Netopia, PictureTel, Plastic Logic, Polycom, Presidio, PulsePoint, Qtera, Sentient Networks, SmartDrive Systems, Tegic, Trapeze, and Wellfleet); advanced software systems (Entropic, firstRain, Illustra/Informix, Sybase, Tele Atlas and Visto); advanced semiconductors (Actel, Airgo, CommQuest, Kenet, Level 5, NemeriX, Newport Media, nLight, Qpixel, Resonext, SMIC, Solarflare, Stretch, Synaptics and Virata); design automation (Centric Software, Interconnectix, Parametric, Synopsys and Tensilica); and Ccean energy technologies (Aurora BioFuels, Boston-Power, eSolar, GreenVolts, NanoH2O, PML, ReliOn, and Sundrop Fuels). Prior to Oak he joined Morgan Stanleys Venture Capital Group in 1983. by stateoftel Dec 14

http://www.crunchbase.com/person/fred-harman-2 Fredric W. Harman, Managing Partner, joined Oak Investment Partners as a General Partner in 1994. Fred’s primary investment focus is on Consumer Internet and Internet New Media. Fred is currently on the Boards of Aspect Software, Connexus Corporation Demand Media, Federated Media, FRS, Knowledge Networks, Limelight Networks, RazorGator, Rearden Commerce, Reunion.com, Shop.com, Sutherland Global Services, and U.S. Auto Parts. Fred has also led investments in aQuantive (acquired by Microsoft), Allyes (acquired by Focus Media), Campus Pipeline (acquired by SCT), Fastclick (acquired by ValueClick), Captura (acquired by Concur), Cobalt, Exodus, ILOG, IMS (acquired by Celestica) Inktomi, Pivotal, Primus Knowledge Solutions, Qpass (acquired by Amdocs), Quintus (acquired by Avaya), Sanmina/SCI, SportsGG and SPSS.

Fred Harman

In addition: Demand Media is a company in distributed social media, which owns domain name registration companies that promote .tel domains. by stateoftel Dec 21

Spectrum

United States, Boston. Private equity firm whose investment activity is focused on business services, entertainment, communications, information services, media, and related growth sectors. Invested in Demand Media. Persons: Brion Applegate, William P. Collatos (co-founders and senior managing directors). by stateoftel Dec 14

Michael Blend

In addition to this profile: eNom offers .tel domain names and will bundle 'other value-added services' with this offering. by stateoftel Dec 14

MySpace

United States, Los Angeles. Social networking website, which is owned by News Corporation. Offers .tel domains to its members 'to better promote their MySpace page in organic search results from any device' and 'to securely share their more private contact information with non-MySpace users who wish to contact them'. Persons: Tom Anderson (co-founder & president), Owen Van Natta (chief executive officer). by stateoftel Dec 14

Owen Van Natta is the Executive Vice President of Business at Zynga. In this role, he is responsible for the company’s revenue strategy, corporate development, international expansion, and brand. Prior to joining Zynga, Owen was consulting for the Company across a number of critical business functions. Owen is also a member of the Zynga Board of Directors. Most recently, Van Natta served as Chief Executive Officer of MySpace where he was responsible for all aspects of the company’s strategic vision and the execution of its global business initiatives. Owen joined the MySpace team after serving as the Chief Executive Officer of Project Playlist, a music sharing website allowing users to search for music, create custom playlists, and share the content with friends.

Owen Van Natta

http://www.crunchbase.com/person/owen-van-natta

One San Francisco

United States, San Francisco. Founder unknown. by stateoftel Feb 9

Jay Williams

In addition to this profile: Jay Williams created the websites Dotteler, Igodottel, Dottel TV, and Dottel Name. by stateoftel Dec 11

Tel Wings

United States, to the north-east of Atlanta. Website that offers new, creative possibilities for using .tel pages. Made by Christopher Vanderhorst. by stateoftel Dec 22

Domain Bank

United States, to the north of Washington, close to the west coast. Company in domain registration and webhosting that offers .tel domains at a reduced price. Co-founded by Steve Heflin. by stateoftel Dec 14

Name

United States, Denver in the state of Colorado. Company that offers domain name registration and related services. Offers .tel domains at a reduced price. Owned by Bill Mushkin. by stateoftel Dec 14

Bill Mushkin

In addition to this profile: Mushkin Enhanced which is best known for producing computer memory modules. by stateoftel Dec 14

Tel Fu

United States, close to the border with Arkansas in the state of Louisiana. Company in .tel advertising and search engine optimization. Currently for sale. Owned by David Taylor. by stateoftel Dec 14

Ms Dot Tel

United States, between San Francisco and Los Angeles on the west coast. Owned by Sarena Valilis, who works at a local fashion retail store. by stateoftel Dec 14

dot Earth

United States, to the south-west of Washington. Company in domain registration, webhosting and emailhosting services. Offers .tel domains at a reduced price. Owned by John Wong. by stateoftel Dec 14

Online NIC

United States, close to San Francisco. Internet services company that offers .tel domains at a reduced price. Unknown owner. by stateoftel Dec 14