CentralNic

Specialties

One of the world’s oldest domain registries, CentralNic supplies domains at a growing number of extensions, currently numbering 26 and including .US​.COM, .UK​.COM, .CN​.COM, AND .LA, sold via an integrated global network of 2000 registrars and over 100,000 resellers. CentralNic’s powerful registry engine has a fifteen year track record of uninterrupted secure supply of domains, supported by innovative marketing and personalised customer service.

History

Established in 1995.

CentralNic was established in 1995 as an independent global domain name registry committed to making it easier for Internet users to establish new and distinctive domain names with regional and country-​specific identities.

Headquartered in London, CentralNic currently has a portfolio of more than 20 domain names available to users worldwide, including EU​.COM (Europe), UK​.COM (United Kingdom), US​.COM, (United States), CN​.COM (China) and RU​.COM (Russia). Additional domain names are regularly added to this portfolio.

The idea for an independent global domain name registry stems from a series of conversations between one of CentralNic’s original founders and the late Jon Postel, one of the founding fathers of the modern Internet. Postel suggested the use of .UK​.COM to compete with .CO​.UK, at a time when the proposed price of the latter was about $ 300. Using UK​.COM as its first domain name, NomiNation was founded in 1995, and later became CentralNic.

Meet the Manager

Gavin B.

Manager

Gavin Brown, Chief Technology Officer: Gavin has worked at CentralNic since 2001, becoming CTO in 2005. Prior to starting at CentralNic, he worked at a successful startup in the online recruitment sector. He has been published in several professional technical journals and also co-​authored a book on the Perl programming language. He also participates in a number of technical, public policy and advocacy groups, and several open source projects.