DNOA Board of Directors Welcomes

Brad Evers

The Voice Staff

The DNOA Directors, Staff and Members are pleased to welcome Brad Evers as a member of the Board of Directors and Vice Chair of the Ethics Committee.

Brad comes to the DNOA with an extensive background in theoretical and applied philosophical ethics as both a teacher and student. Already the recipient of a Masters Degree in Philosophy, he is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Philosophy with an emphasis on state sovereignty and international institutions. Throughout his education, he has served as an instructor and teaching assistant on a variety of topics, including Medical Ethics, Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Law and Justice, Philosophy of Human Nature, and Critical Thinking.

While actively building his domain portfolio, his recent efforts have focused on implementing development ideas for the mobile medium and expanding and developing his .us holdings.

He joins the DNOA eager to employ his skills and background in the service of the organization's mission.

If you have any questions or comments for Brad, please do not hesitate to contact him

via email at brad.evers@gmail.com

DNOA Member Forum username/ Nameluxe.

Membership Fees

Most members may have realized that they have not been billed for their annual DNOA membership dues. The admin. and staff felt it best to wait until the association's recent major changes/upgrades/services had been at least mostly completed, before asking members to renew. This was done to give members the chance to review the changes to DNOA's current services, and its overall direction, before they decided rather or not they wished to renew. It was felt offering members this chance would only be fair in helping them make an informed decision about continuing on as members. For those who decide to stay as members, we will begin regular annual billings at the end of this month. All current memberships will have July as their new annual payment due date. This new date, however, will not effect your original join date. We hope you will decide to stay on as a member as we expand on this organization in our efforts to better the domaining community for all involved.

New membership:

$20.00 a year

Returning membership:

$14.95

Founding Members:

$6.95 per year.

Reformed Committees

One of the most important changes we have made has been the reformation of the Committee structure. Admin evaluated the existing 9 Committees and by combining similar functions and duties revised this to 3 Committees and a new division, Operations & Member Support.

The structure is now:

Group 1

Title:

Ethics Committee

# Ethics

Ethics and Standards of Conduct. Professionalizing Domainers.

This committee will be responsible for reviewing CoE complaints.

# Dispute Resolution

Will act as a neutral party to work towards resolving disputes involving DNOA members.

# Scam Prevention

Establishing searchable database or forum to report scams, industry wide

Group 2

Title:

Public Relations Committee

# Registrar Relations

Identifying ethical registrars and other domain industry businesses.

DNOA Certification of registrars. Company review section.

# Fundraising

Fundraising events, attracting corporate sponsors.

Group 3

Title:

Member Relations Committee

# Membership

Promotion of DNOA, Increasing membership.

This is self explanatory and can easily absorb education and future chapters.

# Education

Public – Awareness of domain names, domain industry, and public perception of domainers.

Members of DNOA – Informing members of DNOA of changes in the industry, legal issues.

Monthly newsletter.

Group 4 (This is not a committee)

# DNOA Operations & Member Support

Maintain Forum and Website

To Address all incoming questions, issues, suggestions etc from members outside of disputes.

To direct members to the proper body specific to their issue.