The ICANN chief who could do nothing about hare.com — correctly — and became a friend anyway
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Stanford BA and MBA — one GSB year ahead of Jonathan Hare, and Scott Sandell's former boss — director of the U.S. National Cybersecurity Center, co-author of The Starfish and the Spider, and President and CEO of ICANN from June 2009 to mid-2012 (web grade, S-121). When hare.com was sold out from under Hare mid-financing-push, Esther Dyson — ICANN's first Chairman — personally put the two GSB men together. Beckstrom could do nothing, and the record notes he was right to do nothing: ICANN runs the root, it does not issue .com registrations. What the call produced instead was the friendship — renewed properly in 2019, on his boat in the Santa Cruz Marina, with Kaja Travnik along.
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PC Forum's convenor; a longtime champion and investor across Hare's companies; the corridor personified
Open →former boss ofTold Hare to camp somewhere else
Open →boat visit withIronman summer housemate, great travel buddy — and the bridge to Slovenia
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