BEN CRAWFORD

Ben Crawford is the CEO of Com Laude, the corporate registrar for the world’s largest companies and most valuable brands, and the leading experts on new top-level domains, consulting on hundreds of nTLDs. Ben has resided in the Middle East since 2010, and as the former CEO of CentralNic, he personally led the consultancy for most of the 2012-round nTLDs from the GCC region, in both Latin and Arabic scripts. His clients included STC, Etisalat, Ooredoo, Kuwait Finance House, and Mobily, as well as the UAE-based registry Radix, home of the hugely successful .online, .store and .site.