After nearly six years at Donuts, Mason Cole moves to law firm.
Mason Cole has joined the law firm Perkins Coie as Internet Governance Advisor in its Trademark, Copyright, Media & Brand Protection practice. He will work with Partner Fabricio Vayra, who leads the firm’s ICANN activities.
Cole is not a lawyer but has been active with ICANN for more than 17 years.
He recently left his role as VP of Communications and Industry Relations at Donuts. There, he joined the company’s four founders to help it apply for hundreds of top level domain names and build a portfolio of about 200 new extensions.
Prior to that, Cole worked for Oversee.net and SnapNames.
Cole will be based in Perkins Coie’s Portland office.
Richard Merdinger says
Congratulations to you, Mason. It’s been great working with you through Donuts and also with your work at the Domain Name Association. Really glad to hear you’re staying involved with the industry; you’re one of the good ones!
JezusChrist.com says
Congrats! Best of luck in the new role.
Bob says
Congrats Mason! Big win for Perkins Coie!
R P says
Sure seems like crypto stole new Gs thunder as far as digital asset investing in 2017. Premium .coms appear to be rising with crypto.
Not sure new Gs as a whole can recover as investment vehicle with lack of uniform pricing amongst registries and instability of future renewal costs.
Sam Frida says
Congratulations Mason!