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'''Leo Vandewoestijne''' is a professional unicyclist. Through his international contacts he learned about the internet, at the early stage when it still was a very elite thing in The Netherlands. After creating his website, he soon got many requests, rolled into web-development, and not much later started to offer virtual hosting, followed by dedicated, colocated and managed hosting. The whole hosting company was unplanned. But after the competition made it hard to make profitable margins, he went to specialize himself into his great interest: DNS, including setting up an own [[ASN]] and own anycast.
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'''Leo Vandewoestijne''' is [[DNS]] anycast engineer at [[Freenom]] and besides serving .tk also .cf, .ga and .ml, plus secondary for a bunch of other TLD's.
That brought him a job at the company behind largest ccTLD (.tk), and so he's currently [[DNS]] engineer at [[Freenom]], and so besides .tk also serving .cf, .ga and .ml and secondary for a bunch of other TLD's.
 
  
 
Leo's first [[ICANN Meetings|ICANN meeting]] was [[ICANN 50 - London|ICANN 50]] in London. He is interested in [[DNS]], Security, and Routing.<ref name="icannwiki">ICANNWiki - ICANN 50 Intake Form, June 2014</ref>
 
Leo's first [[ICANN Meetings|ICANN meeting]] was [[ICANN 50 - London|ICANN 50]] in London. He is interested in [[DNS]], Security, and Routing.<ref name="icannwiki">ICANNWiki - ICANN 50 Intake Form, June 2014</ref>
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== Career History ==
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Leo was -and still is- a professional unicyclist <ref>[http://www.unicycle.net/ unicycle.net]</ref>. Through his international contacts he learned about the internet, at a very early stage, when it still was a very elite thing in The Netherlands. After creating his website, he soon got many requests, rolled into web-development, and not much later offered virtual hosting, followed by dedicated, colocated and managed hosting. The whole hosting company was unplanned, but brought notable customers, and experience in (very) high-number-environments.
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After the competition made it hard on the market to make profitable margins, he specialized himself into his great passion: DNS; included setting up an own [[ASN]] and own anycast.
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While trying to sell that service to TLD operators it soon brought him an unplanned but nice job at [[Freenom]], the company behind largest ccTLD.
  
 
== References ==
 
== References ==

Revision as of 21:27, 3 September 2014

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Country: Netherlands
Email: lvandewoestijne[at]freenom.com
Website:

LinkIcon.png   [unicycle.net unicycle.net]

Leo Vandewoestijne is DNS anycast engineer at Freenom and besides serving .tk also .cf, .ga and .ml, plus secondary for a bunch of other TLD's.

Leo's first ICANN meeting was ICANN 50 in London. He is interested in DNS, Security, and Routing.[1]

Career History

Leo was -and still is- a professional unicyclist [2]. Through his international contacts he learned about the internet, at a very early stage, when it still was a very elite thing in The Netherlands. After creating his website, he soon got many requests, rolled into web-development, and not much later offered virtual hosting, followed by dedicated, colocated and managed hosting. The whole hosting company was unplanned, but brought notable customers, and experience in (very) high-number-environments.

After the competition made it hard on the market to make profitable margins, he specialized himself into his great passion: DNS; included setting up an own ASN and own anycast. While trying to sell that service to TLD operators it soon brought him an unplanned but nice job at Freenom, the company behind largest ccTLD.

References

  1. ICANNWiki - ICANN 50 Intake Form, June 2014
  2. unicycle.net