Greg Aaron

Greg was the senior industry expert on a team that evaluated the policy and technical merits of more than one thousand new TLD applications to ICANN. He works with industry, researchers, and law enforcement to investigate and mitigate cybercrime, and is also a licensed private detective. He has created products and services used by organizations to discover and track Internet-based threats, and has managed large top-level domains around the world, including .INFO, .ME, and .IN. He is President of Illumintel, Inc., a consulting company.

Greg Aaron is an internationally recognized authority on the use of domain names for cybercrime, and is an expert on DNS policy, domain name registry operations, and related intellectual property issues. He is Senior Research Fellow for the Anti-Phishing Working Group. As a member of ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC), he advises the international community regarding the domain name and numbering system that makes the Internet function, and has been engaged creating registration data access policies to satisfy the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).