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.ORG CEO Honored by The Washington Business Journal

Alexa Raad Is Named as One of 2008's Women Who Mean Business
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Posted 21 November 2008 @ 02:56 pm ET

RESTON, VA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/21/08 -- Alexa Raad, CEO of .ORG, The Public InterestRegistry, has been chosen as one of the leading women in Washingtonbusiness by The Washington Business Journal's fifth-annual Women Who MeanBusiness Awards. The Awards set out to recognize women across allindustries and professions, and of all ages, who have demonstrated theirdrive and innovative spirit both around their work and in theircommunities.

Under Alexa's leadership, .ORG, The Public Interest Registry, who managesand oversees the .ORG Top-Level domain, reached over 7 million globaldomain registrations. .ORG is the third largest generic Top-Level domainfollowing .COM and .NET, and has continued to grow consistently since PIRtook over its management in 2003. Alexa has also positioned the .ORG domainas a trailblazer in the areas of Internet policy and security, being thefirst generic Top-Level domain to begin implementing DNS SecurityExtensions to make users safer from identity theft and cache poisoning.Additionally, Alexa has led the formation of a cross-industry groupdedicated to solving issues associated with phishing and malware.

.ORG has continued to add value to its online community of registrantsthrough the .ORG blog and Resource Center, fostering communal spirit and a collaborative natureas well as using those resources throughout the community at large toenable users to further their individual or organizational missions.

In her role as a CEO of a nonprofit, Alexa is dedicated to highlighting thework of organizations and individuals on a global scale who are working toinspire, advocate, and educate in order to change society for the better.The recently launched "World Voices" campaign is an example of the ways in which .ORG isachieving this goal under Alexa's leadership. Throughout her career, Alexahas held different positions in the Internet and Telecommunicationsindustries. In her roles at companies such as AT&T, dotMobi, VeriSign,CyberCash, and Bell Atlantic Internet Services (now Verizon), Raad hasconsistently demonstrated her business acumen and ability to deliverresults.

About .ORG, The Public Interest Registry

Trusted across all ages, backgrounds and nationalities, .ORG is wherepeople turn to find credible information, get involved, fund causes andsupport advocacy. .ORG, The Public Interest Registry empowers the globalnoncommercial community to use the Internet more effectively and,concurrently, takes a leadership position among Internet stakeholders onpolicy and related issues. The .ORG domain is the Internet's third largest"generic" or non-country specific top-level domain with more than 7 milliondomain names registered worldwide. .ORG, The Public Interest Registry, wasfounded by the Internet Society in 2002. It is based in Reston, Virginia,USA.

For more information contact:Kate RussellRMR & Associates, Inc.Email Contact+1 (301) 230-0045 x.19


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