Robert Hall
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Who is Robert Hall?
Mr. Hall is the Chairman of Pool.com. Mr. Hall is also the CEO of Momentous,
which invests in and/or owns companies with over US $30 million in annual
revenues. Momentous companies include Zip.ca, Namescout.com (an accredited
ICANN and AUDA (.au) registrar), Internic.ca and DomainsAtCost.ca (accredited
CIRA (.ca) registrars). Together these companies have over 250,000 individual
and corporate customers. Mr. Hall is a recognized industry expert and has
spoken many times before organizations such as WIPO, ICANN, the US and Canadian
Governments and various International police and justice organizations. In
1998, Mr. Hall sat on the Canadian Governments "E-commerce and domain name
taskforce". This taskforce produced the report on domain names that was
presented at the 1998 OECD meetings in Ottawa. In late 1998, Mr. Hall founded
the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), the registry for the .ca
domain. He was its founding chair in 1998 until 2000 when he resigned to focus
on growing his own businesses. Prior to founding Momentous, Mr. Hall was CEO
and founder of Echelon Internet Corp. and Internet Access Inc., an Ottawa based
ISP that quickly grew to be one of the largest in the region, capturing over
30% of the Ottawa market. In 1996, Internet Access Inc. merged with Hookup
Communications and began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Mr. Hall was
one of the principal founders of the Canadian Association of Internet Providers
(CAIP), the association that represents all ISP's in Canada, and held the
position of Vice-Chair of CAIP and sat on its Board of Directors for its first
4 years. Mr. Hall hosted a radio show 'Surfing the Net' in 1995, and wrote a
weekly column on the Internet for the Sun Publishing chain of newspapers for
several years. Mr. Hall attended the University of Ottawa for Computer Science.
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- Also known as
- Rob Hall
- Education
- University of Ottawa
Computer Science
- University of Ottawa
- Employment
- Chief Executive Officer, Momentous
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on July 23, 2013
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