Ram Mohan

Ram Mohan is the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Afilias Limited. Afilias, based in Ireland with offices in the US, Canada, India, UK and Germany, is the registry operator for the .info and .aero domains, the registry services provider for the .org, .mobi and .asia domains, India’s .in domain and 10 other sovereign country domains (ccTLDs).

Ram is a recognized expert in Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs)[2] the effort to make domain names work in scripts and languages other than ASCII/English. He was a co-author of the IDN Guidelines that have been widely adopted by registries worldwide, and has authored, edited or reviewed the majority of ICANN IDN technical and policy documents. He is a member of the IDN President’s Advisory Committee. He chaired the ICANN Working Group on IDNs. He was an invited expert to the ICANN Reserved Names Working Group. He now chairs the Security and Stability Advisory Committee SSAC IDN Study Group.