Pat Kane
As senior vice president of Verisign’s naming and registry services, Pat Kane is responsible for the policy and operational management of all top-level domains operated by Verisign, including .com and .net, as well as the development of additional tools and services created to support Verisign’s channel partners. Pat has been instrumental in the development and deployment of internationalized domain names at Verisign.
Pat joined Verisign in 1999 and has held several leadership positions during his tenure at the company. Previously, he was a senior principal with American Management Systems, where he deployed tax fraud identification systems for state and local governments. Prior to AMS, Pat spent 15 years with Electronic Data Systems as an account manager, systems engineering manager, and systems engineer, where he managed outsourced information technology engagements in the oil, chemical, and healthcare services industries, as well as federal, state, and local governments.
Pat holds a Bachelor of Science in architectural engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Recent posts by Pat Kane:
On October 20th, ICANN and Verisign renewed the agreement under which Verisign will continue to act as Root Zone Maintainer for the Domain Name System (DNS) for another 8-year term. The Root Zone sits atop the hierarchical architecture of the DNS and is essential to virtually all internet navigation, acting as the dynamic, cryptographically secure, global directory of all top-level domains that exist in the DNS. The Root Zone Maintainer is a unique role that ensures the cryptographic signing and publication of the Root Zone no less than once a day, without which, navigation on the internet would be impossible.
(more…)Over the past several weeks, there has been significant discussion about Verisign and its management of the .com top-level domain (TLD) registry. Much of this discussion has been distorted by factual inaccuracies, a misunderstanding of core technical concepts, and misinterpretations regarding pricing, competition, and market dynamics in the domain name industry.
Billions of internet users and trillions of dollars in global commerce rely on the continuing security, stability, and resiliency of the .com TLD and the technical infrastructure that powers it, so it is vital that discussions about this topic be rooted in fact.
To set the record straight, we have collected and addressed the most common myths currently circulating about the .com TLD.
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